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LeChuck
10 days ago
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Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK a...
Sure, maybe, arguably. Does it matter though? A world without smoking is still better than a world with smoking, right?
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AlexandrB
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And a world where the government tells you what to eat, what to drink, and how much to exercise under penalty of jail is the best of all worlds!
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squigz
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Perhaps. The viability of that aside, I would rather attempt to create that world with things like education rather than the government mandating it. That tends not to work out as intended.
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noduerme
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A world without hypocrisy would be better still.
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