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      Rather than downvoting, I’d like to ask why you think all forms of alcohol for consumption should be illegal

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        Probably because they’re basically poison that has to be filtered out and fucks up your liver and kidneys.

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          If we forbid things just because they are mildly toxic, we would need to forbid almost everything. Including oxygen and water.

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          Ok, but there are plenty of other items that that do that as well. It’s not a call out of “all drugs, including tobacco and alcohol”. It’s not a callout of microplastics. So there’s something specific to alcohol.

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            So there’s something specific to alcohol.

            Being widespread. One bad set of laws in bad place in bad time (propination laws in eastern Europe in XVIII-XIX century) caused untold suffering and is keenly felt to this day, showing how easily hundreds of millions of people can be fucked up by poisonous commodity.

            I’m not for entirely banning alcohol, but only because it would be rather futile, but for restrictions in its selling and far going educational campaigns to finally get rid of it - and it is possible, even if not entirely, looking at the decline of consumption of other poison, tobacco.

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    Pets. Or at least you need to know how to take care of them.

    For example rabbits shouldn’t be alone.

    And wtf is up with putting birds in cages? They are supposed to be free and fly you sick ****!

    Dogs on chains…

    I feel I can continue forever and it’s sad.

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    Selling life-saving drugs at large multiples of the cost to manufacture + distribute. The most obvious example being insulin.

    Switching political party in the same term that you were elected to office.

    CEOs making 100x the median worker at the same company.

    Assault rifles and other automatic or military-grade weapons. They have no practical purpose in the hands of a citizen. Pistols, shotguns, and hunting rifles should be sufficient for hunting and self defense.

    Generic finance bro bullshit. Frivolous use of bank credit for speculative investment. Predatory lending. Credit default swaps. It’s just a spectrum of Ponzi Schemes. Let’s reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act.

    Non-disclosure of expensive gifts to Supreme Court judges. Looking at you, Clarence.

    Military recruiting at high schools.

    Junk mail. You literally have to pay a company to stop sending it.

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      What the fuck? You have to pay to stop getting junk mail? We in Australia just put a little sign on our letterbox saying ‘no junk mail’ and we stop getting it. That’s insane. Same thing with the insulin comment and some of the stuff other people said like forced arbitration. America is crazy.

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        You think thats bad, we have active shooter drills and safe rooms because nothing is done about our gun nut problem.

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        Yup I paid the fee to stop getting marketing junk mail. Then when I started an LLC, they started sending all of that mail again addressed to the LLC. You can’t fucking win.

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          Free paper is free paper. You can also mess with them by signing them up for each other and/or sending them stones (if there’s a return envelope; they’ll be charged for it).

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    Capitalism

    EDIT: also i read the other comments and hilarious amount of other things mentioned also boils down to “capitalism” or their illegalisation would basically needed for capitalism to be outlawed too.

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      A bit tired and misread this as Capitalisation. That caused my brain to freeze, then reboot 🤣

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          If writing in the German language (DSL for interfacing with Germans) should use PascalCase for nouns and camelCase for everything else.

          Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz vs RindFleischEtikettierungsÜberwachungsAufgabenÜbertragungsGesetz

          Much more readable.