Quote from: Decimator Omega on May 06, 2016, 06:58:58 PMQuote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 06:57:12 PMQuote from: HollowedTurkey on May 06, 2016, 06:55:38 PMQuote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 06:53:30 PMYou can't just equate doing something in the public sphere with doing something in the private sphere. I don't even think people should be able to drink on park benches. Why shouldn't someone be able to do whatever the fuck to their own body on a park bench?Same reason you're not allowed to fuck someone on a park bench. You're doing something unpleasant in the direct public eye.There is a massive difference between public eye and public health. I don't want some cuck smoking at my backyard period.If I choose to fuck up my health, that's my choice. The government has zero rights to dictate what you can and can't ingest.
Quote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 06:57:12 PMQuote from: HollowedTurkey on May 06, 2016, 06:55:38 PMQuote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 06:53:30 PMYou can't just equate doing something in the public sphere with doing something in the private sphere. I don't even think people should be able to drink on park benches. Why shouldn't someone be able to do whatever the fuck to their own body on a park bench?Same reason you're not allowed to fuck someone on a park bench. You're doing something unpleasant in the direct public eye.There is a massive difference between public eye and public health. I don't want some cuck smoking at my backyard period.
Quote from: HollowedTurkey on May 06, 2016, 06:55:38 PMQuote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 06:53:30 PMYou can't just equate doing something in the public sphere with doing something in the private sphere. I don't even think people should be able to drink on park benches. Why shouldn't someone be able to do whatever the fuck to their own body on a park bench?Same reason you're not allowed to fuck someone on a park bench. You're doing something unpleasant in the direct public eye.
Quote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 06:53:30 PMYou can't just equate doing something in the public sphere with doing something in the private sphere. I don't even think people should be able to drink on park benches. Why shouldn't someone be able to do whatever the fuck to their own body on a park bench?
You can't just equate doing something in the public sphere with doing something in the private sphere. I don't even think people should be able to drink on park benches.
Wouldn't you consider having sex a human right? Are you going to say you also have a right to do it in public? Of course not, that's a completely other issue.
Quote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 07:00:37 PMQuote from: Decimator Omega on May 06, 2016, 06:58:58 PMQuote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 06:57:12 PMQuote from: HollowedTurkey on May 06, 2016, 06:55:38 PMQuote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 06:53:30 PMYou can't just equate doing something in the public sphere with doing something in the private sphere. I don't even think people should be able to drink on park benches. Why shouldn't someone be able to do whatever the fuck to their own body on a park bench?Same reason you're not allowed to fuck someone on a park bench. You're doing something unpleasant in the direct public eye.There is a massive difference between public eye and public health. I don't want some cuck smoking at my backyard period.If I choose to fuck up my health, that's my choice. The government has zero rights to dictate what you can and can't ingest.So if some cuck at my backyard decides to smoke and the smoke seeps into my bedroom, I have no right but to accept that? No I fucking close the window.
Quote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 07:01:54 PMWouldn't you consider having sex a human right? Are you going to say you also have a right to do it in public? Of course not, that's a completely other issue.Wouldn't you consider doing whatever the fuck you want to yourself a human right? Are you going to say you also have a right to do it in a way that tangibly, physically harms other people? Of course not, that's a completely other issue.
Quote from: HollowedTurkey on May 06, 2016, 07:08:32 PMQuote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 07:01:54 PMWouldn't you consider having sex a human right? Are you going to say you also have a right to do it in public? Of course not, that's a completely other issue.Wouldn't you consider doing whatever the fuck you want to yourself a human right? Are you going to say you also have a right to do it in a way that tangibly, physically harms other people? Of course not, that's a completely other issue.You have an obligation to exercise that right in a way that only immediately affects yourself.I keep answering your questions, and you don't answer mine. Very telling.
Quote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 07:11:22 PMQuote from: HollowedTurkey on May 06, 2016, 07:08:32 PMQuote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 07:01:54 PMWouldn't you consider having sex a human right? Are you going to say you also have a right to do it in public? Of course not, that's a completely other issue.Wouldn't you consider doing whatever the fuck you want to yourself a human right? Are you going to say you also have a right to do it in a way that tangibly, physically harms other people? Of course not, that's a completely other issue.You have an obligation to exercise that right in a way that only immediately affects yourself.I keep answering your questions, and you don't answer mine. Very telling.Those were the first two questions you've asked me, and they were rhetorical. What should be done if somebody doesn't exercise their rights in a way that only immediately affects themselves?
Quote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 07:00:37 PMIf I choose to fuck up my health, that's my choice. The government has zero rights to dictate what you can and can't ingest.Smoking = bad healthBad health = inflated cost of healthcare + less healthy workforceInflated cost of healthcare = some people cannot afford coverage and are denied critical care (it doesn't matter if you think insurance is done; this is reality)Less healthy workforce = more taxes are required to support those individuals via welfareIt's demonstrable that the aggregate effect of smoking basically takes money out of peoples' pocket and endangers lives and livelihoods. Hell, I'd even go so far to say that smoking directly contributes to political corruption. So again, where does my right to do whatever the fuck I want with my body end in regards to others' same right?
If I choose to fuck up my health, that's my choice. The government has zero rights to dictate what you can and can't ingest.
Quote from: Decimator Omega on May 06, 2016, 07:06:41 PMQuote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 07:00:37 PMQuote from: Decimator Omega on May 06, 2016, 06:58:58 PMQuote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 06:57:12 PMQuote from: HollowedTurkey on May 06, 2016, 06:55:38 PMQuote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 06:53:30 PMYou can't just equate doing something in the public sphere with doing something in the private sphere. I don't even think people should be able to drink on park benches. Why shouldn't someone be able to do whatever the fuck to their own body on a park bench?Same reason you're not allowed to fuck someone on a park bench. You're doing something unpleasant in the direct public eye.There is a massive difference between public eye and public health. I don't want some cuck smoking at my backyard period.If I choose to fuck up my health, that's my choice. The government has zero rights to dictate what you can and can't ingest.So if some cuck at my backyard decides to smoke and the smoke seeps into my bedroom, I have no right but to accept that? No I fucking close the window.No, because he's taking the indecent act into the public sphere. It's no different if a couple had sex in a brightly lit room with open windows where everyone can see, you call the police and report a disturbance.I'm talking about responsible personal usage behind closed doors.
With that in mind, to answer your question, the same thing would happen if someone broke the regulation you mentioned as would happen to someone who broke the regulation I just mentioned. It would be a broken law, same as any other.
Quote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 07:18:46 PMWith that in mind, to answer your question, the same thing would happen if someone broke the regulation you mentioned as would happen to someone who broke the regulation I just mentioned. It would be a broken law, same as any other.Well I've already demonstrated that smoking cigarettes actually does hurt others, so should they all be punished? I didn't ask about a regulation; I'm asking what should happen, in your moral framework, when someone harms someone else in the execution of their right to do whatever they want to their body.And there seems to be a pretty huge distinction between banning the production or import of cigarettes, and banning the use of cigarettes. Maybe you have the right to do whatever you want, but companies certainly don't have the right to sell whatever they want; this isn't a completely free market, after all.
You demonstrated they hurt society in a broad sense, I'm talking about immediate effects that an individual smoker creates while he's smoking a cigarette. If healthcare is effected because of that private execution of his right, that's a problem with healthcare.
Quote from: SecondClass on May 06, 2016, 07:40:18 PMYou demonstrated they hurt society in a broad sense, I'm talking about immediate effects that an individual smoker creates while he's smoking a cigarette. If healthcare is effected because of that private execution of his right, that's a problem with healthcare.You claim it's wrong for the government to allow water companies to fluoridate public water because it hurts society in a broad sense (disclaimer for all: it doesn't, and no research supports that it does). Then that must be a problem with healthcare, too.
People don't consent to flourinated water, and the government adds it without the say of every person who uses tap water.
That's why it's wrong. And yes, external fluoride is bad for you.
Everyone is directly burdened by flourinated tap water because they are unknowingly forced to consume it (it's not labeled). Only smokers are directly burdened by cigarettes, because only they are consuming them. Are you beginning to see the difference?
If even the idea of a society imposes upon the right to consume whatever you substance you want to, then the idea is wrong.
The broad social consequences cease to matter when they're derived from the reasonable exercise of a human right.