@iridescentaudio@ashstronge Couldn’t have said it better myself. And they’re only in favour of nannying when it doesn’t surface that they had experimented with the drugs themselves at uni lol
@tickderpin@mjc0ughl4n@ashstronge This wouldn’t surprise me at all. How can they say the money from fining shops will be used to help the social costs when that is literally the purpose of the tax on cigarettes?
@Hadesr66@mjc0ughl4n@ashstronge Ok but where do you draw the line on undemocratically-determined regulation?
Are you happy with the govt telling you that you can’t have two cans of coke today because of its marginal social cost? Or that you’ve played an hour more of fifa than is allocatively efficient?
@ashstronge@mjc0ughl4n ^This is also a massive reason why the policy feels like a step backwards. In a country where there are talks of legalising weed in line with our European counterparts exactly to avoid the black market effect, how has this come about??
@ashstronge I think it boils down to freedom of choice tbh. Britain and the wider West love to chant about Liberal ideals and then begin actively removing lifestyle choices without public input. Even weirder under a Tory govt that fundamentally opposes a nanny state.