It's shit like this that makes me pine for anarcho-capitalism, no matter how unworkable and unrealistic of a philosophy it is. I want to completely choke out and pull the rug out from under anybody who would use legal force to impose their nanny state rules on others like this. I don't vape or care about vaping. It's not so much the small tyranny being imposed that I hate as much as the personal desires and activism of these moralists being made manifest. Without the tool called The State being available, they wouldn't even waste their breath. The activist grift couldn't exist. The little Napoleons would have to settle for tyrannizing their homeowners associations, school committees, church bakes, and so on.
Ignoring the many problems it would cause - if the government magically ceased to exist tomorrow, millions of people who feel the need to "TAKE ACTION TO CHANGE THE LAW" would realize they have no reason to live and might even commit suicide. It would be glorious.
Here's the ultra-cringe St Luke's ad, which, in the extended version, rants about banning smoking and vaping altogether, because it makes the idiots who agree with these people "uncomfortable" to see it in the community:
Not that I'm advocating for smoking or vaping, but banning the choice, as here, because upper middle class idiots think they can decide on the behalf of everyone else..? Yeah, I don't agree with that.
Also lol at the deeply ironic choice of music for this one...
I love how ad companies have absolutely no clue what the original intention of songs were, and don't bother finding out...
Ironically that's kind of what they've already done, but with that typical tyrannical Aussie government twist: you need a prescription to buy a nicotine vape.
Banning the recreational vaping is basically them shutting down 'black market' products under the guise of protecting kids.
Except "banning" recreational vaping created the black market. It's not like weed in the US where everyone was already so used to going to a dealer that they just kept going to them once it was legalized.
Looks like an attempt to get it unbanned (which in Australia means "strictly regulated" because the average Australian serf has no concept of freedom).
It's shit like this that makes me pine for anarcho-capitalism, no matter how unworkable and unrealistic of a philosophy it is. I want to completely choke out and pull the rug out from under anybody who would use legal force to impose their nanny state rules on others like this. I don't vape or care about vaping. It's not so much the small tyranny being imposed that I hate as much as the personal desires and activism of these moralists being made manifest. Without the tool called The State being available, they wouldn't even waste their breath. The activist grift couldn't exist. The little Napoleons would have to settle for tyrannizing their homeowners associations, school committees, church bakes, and so on.
Ignoring the many problems it would cause - if the government magically ceased to exist tomorrow, millions of people who feel the need to "TAKE ACTION TO CHANGE THE LAW" would realize they have no reason to live and might even commit suicide. It would be glorious.
Health insurance ads here are all about "ban all smoking and vaping and never let anyone do it again", now, too...
It's pretty disturbing, tbh.
And yet the Medibank ad would have you believe a fat pajeet is the pinnacle of human health.
Let's just be honest here, they're banning 'recreational' vaping because the government hasn't found a way to get its hands on that sweet tax revenue.
Yep, agreed.
Here's the ultra-cringe St Luke's ad, which, in the extended version, rants about banning smoking and vaping altogether, because it makes the idiots who agree with these people "uncomfortable" to see it in the community:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0s7MPIfe0
Not that I'm advocating for smoking or vaping, but banning the choice, as here, because upper middle class idiots think they can decide on the behalf of everyone else..? Yeah, I don't agree with that.
Also lol at the deeply ironic choice of music for this one...
I love how ad companies have absolutely no clue what the original intention of songs were, and don't bother finding out...
Legalize it, sell it openly in stores, and tax it.
It's not that hard, that's what evey other country does.
Ironically that's kind of what they've already done, but with that typical tyrannical Aussie government twist: you need a prescription to buy a nicotine vape.
Banning the recreational vaping is basically them shutting down 'black market' products under the guise of protecting kids.
Except "banning" recreational vaping created the black market. It's not like weed in the US where everyone was already so used to going to a dealer that they just kept going to them once it was legalized.
Just one more example of government 'solving' a problem of their own creation.
It's funded by every tobacconist in Australia: https://www.responsiblevaping.com.au/about
Looks like an attempt to get it unbanned (which in Australia means "strictly regulated" because the average Australian serf has no concept of freedom).