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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So instead of reducing a clearly destructive habit now we should wait for a major social change that likely won't happen. I don't see how that is more altruistic for the "poor and disaffected".

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can either try to do things the right way and cure multiple social ills, or you can do it the wrong way and end up with different rules for different adults all in an attempt to prohibition your way out of one issue.