(July 15, 2020 at 12:59 pm)tackattack Wrote: Your appeal to dignity and anti-authoritarian stance is very telling and reckless with other people’s lives
In Australia they don't advertise hard liquor on TV. And while they still sell cigarettes, they don't have corporate labels on the cartons nor can you see the product on a shelf. Cigarettes are placed in non descript drawers behind the counter based on number, like a library index. Even the cartons don't have the corporate logo on them.
And even with alcohol including beer and wine, those are all separate like some states in America have ABC. They don't sell alcohol in grocery stores at all.
They also don't have the firearm violence problem we do either.
They are still a western open state. I love Australia. But not once have I ever seen their regulations as oppressive, but simply smart.
I agree Tackttack. Anyone objecting to a mask regulation during a pandemic is using bad logic. It isn't "authoritarian" to tell people to not drink and drive. It isn't "authoritarian" to say wearing a mask not only protects yourselves, but your own family and friends and coworkers.
Australia doesn't display cigarettes out in the open like America does, because they don't want youth to get addicted. They don't sell alcohol everywhere because they don't want a pandemic of addiction. They don't promote firearms like America does, because they know and accept firearms are not toys. They still sell all of those things, but they take it seriously. Just like Nader took the auto industry on and faced it with it's problems.
It isn't oppression to do the right thing.
