Nanny state, now out on DVD.

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

Meh.

They can have anti-smoking PSAs all they want. I won’t complain until they start arresting people for possessing tobacco and a violent black market grows up to provide smokers with contraband. I’m not a smoker, but I wouldn’t want to see those things happen because I agree with the OPs feelings about a nanny state.

[Steve_MB]

@internet explorer

Here’s what I don’t get- from a public health perspective. If you can see that a subset of people are particularly effected by a message, and you can counter that negative message with a simple statement, why is that so offensive? It isn’t infringing on your “rights”, you can avert your eyes if you don’t like it whatever- but if it works, why not do it? Because it might annoy you for 15 seconds? What if that 15 seconds has a measurable effect on American morbidity and the cost of disease or lengthens life-spans? At what point does your 15 seconds of annoyance become worth it? We do all sorts of annoying shit in the name of public health. You’re just not used to this one yet. You’ll get over it.

Tell you what. Let me know where your car is parked, and I’ll print a message of my choice on a bumper sticker and slap it on. I promise to make sure it takes 15 seconds – no more, no less – to peel it off.

You got a problem with that?

[treis]

@Steve MB

Tell you what. Let me know where your car is parked, and I’ll print a message of my choice on a bumper sticker and slap it on. I promise to make sure it takes 15 seconds – no more, no less – to peel it off.

You got a problem with that?

Bad analogy. You are vandalizing my car whereas you purchase the DVD with the warning already affixed like say a dealership attaching license plate holder.