News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The New Era of Nicotine. Parent comment

Re:The New Era of Nicotine by mrslave on Sunday July 31, 2022 @07:21PM (#32299862)
It is curious that political action is not first and foremost in our minds, if at all. We take it for granted that all manner of immoral production and consumption will be permitted.

Instead passive and voluntary actions like simply not investing in companies and not buying their products - possibly framed as something more principled like divestment - is our default setting.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The New Era of Nicotine by dabbledash on Sunday July 31, 2022 @07:59PM (#32300125)
Yeah, a scenario where everyone's "default setting" is trying to ban everything they consider "immoral" sounds pretty terrible.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The New Era of Nicotine by barry-cotter on Sunday July 31, 2022 @08:36PM (#32300392)
Indeed, the first solution to every problem should be one size fits all and involve the implicit or explicit threat of imprisonment or death.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The New Era of Nicotine by glaucon on Sunday July 31, 2022 @07:34PM (#32299949)
Well political action is being taken in different parts of the world. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audi...
[ Parent | on HN ]