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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by kevingadd on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @03:29AM (#39987945)
Cigarettes aren't speech. I don't understand why anyone would argue otherwise.
Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by boxed on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @03:59AM (#39988145)
No, but there the issue is bodily autonomy. Which arguably is much more important a right than free speech.
Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by suslik on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @05:31AM (#39988722)
Is bodily autonomy a recognized right in any sense? Is there a society that actually respects the right to bodily autonomy legally or in practice - meaning, using any drugs at will, the right to suicide, to agree to being eaten by a friendly cannibal, and so on? I don't think there is, and nobody is pushing for it.
Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by defrost on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @05:41AM (#39988776)
The Okapa District, pre missionary, pre kiaps .. you were good to go until the mid 1950s at least .. and then colonizers spread their values.

> to agree to being eaten by a friendly cannibal

They had standards though, you'd have to work to gain the respect for anyone to want to eat you as a mortuary ritual.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FK5N_ObFeQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore_people

Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by boxed on Thursday April 11, 2024 @02:03AM (#39998869)
There's two parts though:

1. the right to not have someone else do stuff to your body

2. your right to do anything to it

Number 1 is pretty well established.

Number 2 less so, and I think that comes down to us as a society noticing that many people can't be trusted with full access here. Ask any clean addict and they will tell you what a colossal mistake it was to start using the drug in the first place. The regulation of what you can do with your own body is, in my opinion, a regulation to protect future you from present you. Because we all know what the present you has worse impulse control and judgement than future you would like.