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If educating people didn't work, we'd all be drinking cocaine soda and burning leaded fuel. I mean, there's a reason things have generally greatly improved over time for most of humanity. We know more things and act upon that knowledge. This applies to basically every single thing humans do. Maybe one day we won't be drinking sugar water and adulterating ~every piece of food on the shelf with high-fructose corn syrup?


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cthalupa10/12/2024

> If educating people didn't work, we'd all be drinking cocaine soda and burning leaded fuel.

When the person you are arguing with is saying that government induced bans would probably help more, and your are arguing they're wrong and your two examples were resolved by government induced bans, you're going about arguing in a very strange way.