• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Governments, businesses, corporations and all of us just normalizing and accepting that the majority of everything we own or buy at affordable prices are all based on taking advantage of as many poor people as possible in our home countries and most of the time in third world developing nations where people are paid pennies for their work.

    We complain about China, yet everyone buys everything from them. We look down on third world developing countries yet we base our economies on manufacturing a ton of stuff from them because they all hire people for as little as possible. In America, Canada and Europe, we have agricultural workers we ship in from poorer countries to harvest our crops because we don’t want to pay higher prices for labour to the people that live in our countries … we would rather pay poverty wages for imported labour that we don’t want to stay in our country.

    Everything we do, buy and pay for is all based on exploitation … our entire economy the world over is based on it … yet it is perfectly legal … but if we are all so moral, enlightened and intelligent then it should be illegal.

    • Mesophar@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Rather than downvoting, I’d like to ask why you think all forms of alcohol for consumption should be illegal

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        8 months ago

        Probably because they’re basically poison that has to be filtered out and fucks up your liver and kidneys.

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          If we forbid things just because they are mildly toxic, we would need to forbid almost everything. Including oxygen and water.

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            Alcohol is pretty significantly toxic, especially compared to oxygen and water.

            I’m not in favour of banning it outright, but alcohol is more dangerous than some drugs that are illegal in many parts of the world, including the US.

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            8 months ago

            Oh yeah, a lot of people die because they drink too much water. Don’t forget how moch money is wasted because people break shit and beat each other up when theu are high on water.

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              Isn’t that more a social issue? Getting drunk and becoming violent isn’t a cause-effect. Someone that becomes abusive after drinking would be abusive without alcohol as well, that’s just a trigger for the behavior.

              This is closer to an actual answer, though. It’s easier to remove drinking than to change drinking culture. It just didn’t work the last time they tried to ban alcohol (in the USA), so if behavior around drinking is the issue that is trying to be solved there are probably other ways to go about it.

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          Ok, but there are plenty of other items that that do that as well. It’s not a call out of “all drugs, including tobacco and alcohol”. It’s not a callout of microplastics. So there’s something specific to alcohol.

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            So there’s something specific to alcohol.

            Being widespread. One bad set of laws in bad place in bad time (propination laws in eastern Europe in XVIII-XIX century) caused untold suffering and is keenly felt to this day, showing how easily hundreds of millions of people can be fucked up by poisonous commodity.

            I’m not for entirely banning alcohol, but only because it would be rather futile, but for restrictions in its selling and far going educational campaigns to finally get rid of it - and it is possible, even if not entirely, looking at the decline of consumption of other poison, tobacco.

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      Not only they are bad ideas, but the incentives are horrible.

      I could see the point of prisons if there was “warranty”. If a person guess back to jail, the first sentence was useless and the prison should be financially punished. You’ll see then how quickly therapy and quality job trainings are implemented.

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      8 months ago

      I can see where you are coming from, but if you don’t allow me this vice, you’d better get me an alternative.

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    Tracking & profiting off it.
    Forcing people to be tracked to use a product that they then sell that data should be illegal without your complete, informed consent, and you get to opt out and still use the product.
    All tracking should be regulated. You own your personhood 100% and only you can make money off of that.

    • lemonuri@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      How about we set a no tracking flag in our browsers for example and companies actually respect the choice? One can only dream…

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    Flying planes. A few months ago, I got to do take-off and pilot a bit in a tandem plane. Being in a small, single-engine 1969 plane instead of the typical jumbo jet–I realized it was literally just a shitty old RV inside, shag carpet, rickety little passenger window, and all. Except for one minor difference: we were soon IN THE FUCKING SKY. That’s when I realized humanity has no place being up there, with all due respect to John F. Kennedy, NASA, etc. And a little sidenote to those same scientists: a giant metal object ascending into the sky makes no sense–I don’t think it can last. It’s the folly of man. Oh, and you can just have a plane!? That’s allowed somehow!?

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      8 months ago

      You have no clue how rediculously well regulated aircraft are. However aesthetically displeasing the plane you flew in was, it wouldn’t be in the sky if it wasn’t flightready.

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        You have no clue how rediculously well regulated aircraft are

        While I’m broadly in agreement with you (and am certainly not in favour of banning flying), I think recent events have shown us pretty clearly: they are not nearly as well-regulated as the industry likes to claim, especially with the large commercial aeroplanes.

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          The FAA and industry response to Boeing’s neglegence has been swift and complete. I don’t think these recent events detracts from what I said.

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            Boeing has been having issues going back a lot further, since at least the 787 Dreamliner. It’s just gotten a lot worse with the 737 Max.

            The problem is that the FAA allows them to use “Designated Inspectors” to ensure their compliance, which are Boeing employees, not independent FAA staff. And the FAA is still allowing them to fly despite there still being serious known flaws (being unable to run the anti-ice system for more than 5 minutes without potentially damaging the engine).

            It’s also probably why their only real competitor, not being based in business-friendly safety-regulation-hating America, hasn’t had similar problems.

            In a properly regulated market, the FAA never would have allowed 737 Maxes to be certified for use, or it at least would have grounded them once issues became clear. Instead, they treat Boeing as “too big to fail” and don’t want to upset the travel market in the way that grounding large numbers of planes because of a safety concern.

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          Still better regulated than cars and driving.

          I think the problem is that some of the corporations have decided that it’s acceptable to increase the margins of error in the name of profit.

          If they make more money than they lose due to lawsuits and lost customers, it’s a win in the eyes of capitalism!

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      Planes are by far the safest way to travel due to the extremely strict regulations, regulations that don’t exist for other means of transportation

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      Now imagine being a wwii fighter pilot and charging straight ahead through enemy’s AA in a plane built from wood and paper.

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    Boobstreamers eroticizing themselves in front of kids and luring them to their onlyfans sites. Should be treated as pedophilia

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        Except for the parts where, in the name of religion, people are subjected to barbaric surgical procedures; “cures” for their sexual preferences; and pedophiles in positions of authority, among many other terrible things.

        In the history of humankind, religion is responsible for more human suffering than all other causes combined.

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      Where do we draw the line what is or isn’t a religion? If you have definition, try applying it to Pastafarianism, Communism, Budhism and a bunch of other ideas and practices from Asia.

      Personally, I prefer to go with a super simple and completely arbitrary list definition. If it’s on my secret list, it’s a religion. If not, it’s a philosophy.

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    Using “tipping” as an excuse not to pay workers living wage.

    Displaying prices without tax.

    P.S. This is illegal where I live, but some places would be better off if it were illegal there also.

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      Displaying the price you will pay at the counter is my personal benchmark for civilized society. No price tags? You’re a medieval backwater. Wrong price tags? Go see a shrink, USA. Correct price tags is the way to go.

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        Would it change your assessment if they have dynamic price tags that you can only see with the aid of some network-connected augmented reality solution or an online catalog (that you access with a QR code you scan, geotagged software, or something along those lines)?

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        It’s weird here too because states set sales taxes. I live in Oregon, and we don’t have a standard sales tax here. That means what you see is what you pay at the register for most things, and it’s so freaking nice.

        About the only thing I regularly see is the bottle tax (0.10/can added at the register). That’s refundable too, at least theoretically, so it’s not that bad.

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      I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding your comment, but killing animals for pleasure alone is already largely illegal in Western countries. And that includes hunting. You aren’t allowed to just hunt an animal for fun and then leave it unharvested. It is hard to enforce, obviously. But you can definitely be charged for killing deer, moose, ducks, even fish, without a license and at least the intent to eat it. For example, you can’t kill a bear, cut off its paws or gall bladder, and then throw the carcass in the bush. You also can be charged for killing or treating an animal inhumanely or in a way that causes it distress. That theoretically applies to all animals, including pets, livestock, aquariums, wildlife, and even small animals like mice and bats.

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          Yes, there is that. I am personally against hunting because I figure wild animals are already under enough pressure from habitat destruction and climate change.

          Hunting is largely cultural now and isn’t needed for sustenance except in very remote places. At the same time, I’m not sure if it is fair to classify a cultural practice as being for mere pleasure. It is a bit more complicated than that. Certainly, in Canada, indigenous peoples and the descendents of early settlers think so.

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            Hunting is needed for wildlife management. We’ve killed most of the natural predators for the animals we have hunting seasons for so we need to fill that niche or those animals won’t have enough food to go around during winter. I can’t speak for the animals, but I would prefer being shot to death rather than starving to death. There’s also the factor of more deer (and other prey animals) crossing roads being more dangerous for everyone involved.