Do you see 10 year old people smoking? Usually no. Teenagers? Probably they start there. Then, when do you think they should get that information in education? It is a real question.
That would prevent way more I guess. Of course, in our law, trying to sell cigarrettes actively to underage is illegal and I find that regulation reasonable.
But trying to protect adults from their own irresponsibility is a totally different story. It is their problem.
I get your point and in some way you are right also. I am just advocating for little regulation, but, of course, I am talking also about adults here.
I did not mean underage people. If you target underage for gambling or any addiction in bad faith, that is an attempt to cause damage and punishable.
But that does not mean that the most important thing is to have the information there and decide. Again, I am talking about adults.
By the way, talking about regulations. In my country you can open a university only if it has 8 or 9 degrees offered. If I want to open the best CS degree in the country as a University, I cannot. Do you find it reasonable? Do you think this goes in the interest of consumers? Do you think the state abuses its position by doing so? (Clearly yes). That is why I do not want regulations. You give them the power and they end up regulating even your position to go to the toilet. That said, I find under/overage, even if it is arbitrary (there are teenagers that are responsible people), reasonable, to protect them from unscrupulous people.
But I do not need my life to be ruled in the name of so many things, that is bad and it goes against us if you think of it carefully.
But you will always have responsible teenagers and irresponsible adults. We should not help people that do not want to be helped.
The same way we should help people that have trouble. We should, I think, honestly, but... that we should does not mean we should have that responsibility unconditionally and coactively.
You know what? It can look selfish to you but you are going to have way more autonomous, responsible and self-sufficient people if you apply this rule. A good outcome IMHO.
That would prevent way more I guess. Of course, in our law, trying to sell cigarrettes actively to underage is illegal and I find that regulation reasonable.
But trying to protect adults from their own irresponsibility is a totally different story. It is their problem.
I get your point and in some way you are right also. I am just advocating for little regulation, but, of course, I am talking also about adults here.
I did not mean underage people. If you target underage for gambling or any addiction in bad faith, that is an attempt to cause damage and punishable.
But that does not mean that the most important thing is to have the information there and decide. Again, I am talking about adults.
By the way, talking about regulations. In my country you can open a university only if it has 8 or 9 degrees offered. If I want to open the best CS degree in the country as a University, I cannot. Do you find it reasonable? Do you think this goes in the interest of consumers? Do you think the state abuses its position by doing so? (Clearly yes). That is why I do not want regulations. You give them the power and they end up regulating even your position to go to the toilet. That said, I find under/overage, even if it is arbitrary (there are teenagers that are responsible people), reasonable, to protect them from unscrupulous people.
But I do not need my life to be ruled in the name of so many things, that is bad and it goes against us if you think of it carefully.
But you will always have responsible teenagers and irresponsible adults. We should not help people that do not want to be helped.
The same way we should help people that have trouble. We should, I think, honestly, but... that we should does not mean we should have that responsibility unconditionally and coactively.
You know what? It can look selfish to you but you are going to have way more autonomous, responsible and self-sufficient people if you apply this rule. A good outcome IMHO.