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0 pointsleoedin3mo ago0 comments

> We have banned heroin so we should be able to ban anything else that's toxic

Except banning heroin clearly didn't work so well! There's still a lot of people using it. And the profits from selling it go to criminal gangs. And the people using it often die due to inconsistent dosing.

How do you define "manipulative potential"? If you ban sugar in drinks, do you ban fruit juice too? Where do we draw the line for "acceptable harm"? Personally I don't want to live in a society which bans huge numbers of things.

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fsflover3mo ago

You can tax drinks based on the amount of sugar they contain. Yes, including juices.

teekert3mo ago

Yeah, in my country oat milk is now taxed as a juice, of course milk isn't. So the plant based alternative is now 2x the price of cow milk. Thanx Milk industry.

cpursley3mo ago

Milk is an order of magnitude healthier than the highly processed sludge called oak “milk”.

fsflover3mo ago

Source?

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randomNumber73mo ago

I agree. Maybe one would need to ban the misinformative marketing (although I know that opens another can of worms).

hellweaver6663mo ago

What's the difference between a big company and a criminal gang if not for the law? If it wasn't for the big companies, more dangerous things would be illegal, just like Heroin and other hard drugs.

cobblestone323mo ago

I mean, it's not often you hear about tobacco dealers shooting each other in a crowded mall, or alcohol bosses getting their house blown up (or sometimes their neighbors house). So there might be a few small differences between companies and criminal gangs.

mapontosevenths3mo ago

> or alcohol bosses getting their house blown up (or sometimes their neighbors house).

There was a time when alcohol dealing led to an awful lot of that sort of violence. We put a stop to it when we legalized Alcohol and regulated it.

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fsflover3mo ago

You can tax drinks based on the amount of sugar they contain. Yes, including juices.

teekert3mo ago

Yeah, in my country oat milk is now taxed as a juice, of course milk isn't. So the plant based alternative is now 2x the price of cow milk. Thanx Milk industry.

cpursley3mo ago

Milk is an order of magnitude healthier than the highly processed sludge called oak “milk”.

fsflover3mo ago

Source?

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randomNumber73mo ago

I agree. Maybe one would need to ban the misinformative marketing (although I know that opens another can of worms).

hellweaver6663mo ago

What's the difference between a big company and a criminal gang if not for the law? If it wasn't for the big companies, more dangerous things would be illegal, just like Heroin and other hard drugs.

cobblestone323mo ago

mapontosevenths3mo ago

> or alcohol bosses getting their house blown up (or sometimes their neighbors house).

There was a time when alcohol dealing led to an awful lot of that sort of violence. We put a stop to it when we legalized Alcohol and regulated it.

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