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Re:Airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @06:50PM (#35446910)
How many dead annually from inactive lifestyles or overeating? Those are all choices that people make that affect them — nobody should be forced to live in a virtuous bubble just because it might extend their life a few years. That's all totally different from choosing to harm another human being.
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Re:Airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners by corbulo on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:30AM (#35450593)
not doing anything and overindulging in an activity required to live are not equivalents to a drug addiction.
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Re:Airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners by oneeyedpigeon on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:27AM (#35451029)
A drug addiction, yes, sure. But the war on drugs isn't a war on addiction, it's a war on all use.
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Re:Airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners by corbulo on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:59AM (#35451268)
Does supply play a role in addiction? Opportunity?
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Re:Airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners by oneeyedpigeon on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @05:14AM (#35451384)
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but to your point in another comment, I have some sympathy to setting an 'addiction bar' and prohibiting drugs above that bar. Of course, the biggest issue with all these discussions is that, by any objective measure of harm/addiction, alcohol ranks right up there alongside heroin, meth, etc.

But all of this is a tangent to the 'war on drugs' which doesn't even begin to address the issue sensibly.

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