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What is something that is completely legal that should be illegal? (midwest.social)

submitted 7 months ago by Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Aradia@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Alcohol (beer, wine...).

[–] Mesophar@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lath@kbin.earth 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Mesophar@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[–] Trent@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For-profit prisons and hospitals.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 1 points 7 months ago

Also education

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Passive income.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Capitalism

EDIT: also i read the other comments and hilarious amount of other things mentioned also boils down to "capitalism" or their illegalisation would basically needed for capitalism to be outlawed too.