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Originally Posted by StrongInTheArm
This freedom argument bothers me! Sure I agree everybody is free to smoke themselves to death if they want to. (There is the passive smoking angle to this but we'll ignore that for now). The question in my mind is should somebody or some company be allowed to manufacture the method of suicide and profit from its sale?
Think of this way; there are a lot of people in the world wanting to kill themselves, what if I invented a machine that would do it for them. All they do is step into my little chamber and painlessly, quickly and efficiently they are dispatched. Of course they have to pay for the privilege, nothing in life is free after all!
Would you condone my freedom to make my little Death Chamber? Would you be comfortable with my machine's existence?
If the answer is no, then what is the difference between my Death Chamber and cigarettes, apart from my machine being more efficient?
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A person should be free to make cigarettes. What right do you have to tell them not to make cigarettes? What is this perverse need to impinge upon the freedom of others when it doesn't concern you?