I want to live in a world where people don't force their vices on bystanders. I don't give a shit what you do to yourself but it matters who you do it in front of. (Smoking in a house with children should be a crime)
Less exposure to smoking also makes some people less likely to take up smoking, as its presence isn't so normalized. So that's a lesser burden on medical infrastructure and fewer sources of secondhand smoke. Wins all around.
To oversimplify: there was not a demonstrable process that could explain the movement of huge sheets of solid rock, that's where the reluctance came from. It wasn't until the ocean floor mapping of the 60s that we understood the non-random nature earthquakes and the existence of mid-ocean ridges that lead the scientific community to accept "seafloor spreading" as the mechanism of Alfred Wegener's proposed continental drift.
There's also a level of "there isn't actually a written record of the obvious use for this so we can't responsibly call it a dildo" and ritual being an incredibly vague descriptor. It might be an overcorrection to the long history of wildly inaccurate fetishization of "exotic" cultures in anthropology.
This is the conclusion of all those "humans are the virus" type posts, all the "I didn't ask to be born" angst. These people think existence is suffering therefore it is morally wrong to have children. They're unwell.
Ok but there's zero movement in a lot of hobby communities here, and I'm not talking about niche interests. There cannot be quality when the quantity is none.
Blah blah ecofascist doomerism. We can live harmonically with nature and have for most of our history. Our current consumerist society isn't compatible with sustainable and responsible practices but that isn't a forgone conclusion or intrinsic to human behavior. That's not to say that we aren't on a bad path, we absolutely are and a great many organisms are going extinct because of us, but ascribing a moral value to our very existence is the wrong move.
It's not a compromise it's the cost of a functioning society. Measles. Smallpox. Polio. Whooping cough. There are extremely real costs to "personal choice" in the face of disease. Those costs are quite often passed on to children. Rickets. Fetal alcohol syndrome. I don't think parents should be free to make harmful choices for their offspring.
Faith is the compromise. I wish that every single adult had the education, interest, and wherewithal to make ethical and well-informed decisions about themself and their dependents but that's not the world we live in.
Nah, I'm perfectly ok with "forced medication" when the societal benefit vastly outweighs the side effects. Mandatory vaccination, nutritionally supplemented food for children to aid in development, minor things like fluoride that reduce healthcare costs and promote long-term health, bring it on.
Giving credence to unsupported "skepticism" undermines the necessary faith in public infrastructure. Faith is a careful word choice here. I don't expect the average person to really understand the benefits and chemistry and p-values, as much as I'd like them to. Some things just need doing because you trust the authority saying so. (And right now there are precious few American authorities worthy of trust.)
Judginess doesn't cause asthma attacks.