Quote Originally Posted by CoccoBill View Post
So to put it another way, you see no issue with me marketing tobacco as a harmless habit that makes you look cool?
I have a huge problem with it. Almost everybody has a huge problem with it.

But what I have an even bigger problem with is getting government involved in it because government has an incredible track record of making these things far worse. It doesn't solve the actual problem as well as it creates the unintended consequences like what Renton laid out earlier.

There are plenty of ways people acting freely solve these sorts of problems. Governments, well, kinda never solve them. The data and theory both bear this out. The data against government solving problems is overwhelming. The theory is solid. Everybody agrees with the theory too. It's just that once people start thinking in terms of macro, they start providing one exception for that theory: government. We think it's absolutely ridiculous for government to tell us who we're allowed to be friends with, but we love government telling us who are allowed to be our doctors. The theory for why it is wrong for government to choose peoples' friends is exactly the same when applied to choosing doctors, but society at large has rejected this reality.