survey about snus - Moral questioning

[daruckis]

yeah i think this a dumb question to ask a snus forum full of enthusiasts.

[Anthony]

What the hell does "morally right" mean?

[justintempler]

Re: survey about snus - Moral questioning

Is it morally right of Swedish Match to build a company's operations, on people's snuff addiction?

yes? no? why?

Please share your opinions!

You are begging the question.

The way the question is worded starts with the presuposition that they did build a business on people's addiction.

Undersökning is Swedish for: inquest, investigation or examination.

You can't investigate if you start out with a bias.

[RRK]

Re: survey about snus - Moral questioning

Undersökning is Swedish for: inquest, investigation or examination.

Boom!

[justintempler]

Wonder if he's part of that crack investigative team that wrote the story about that top secret ingredient, sodium carbonate :?: :roll:

[PsychoHazard]

[sarcasm]It occurs to me that a more important question is being missed. Is it morally wrong to employ people who are just going to spend the money they are paid for their work on feeding their addictions or other morally questionable activities? Shouldn't the morally superior simply enslave the rest of us for our own good?[/sarcasm]

Yeah, I'm being sarcastic, but once you start down that slippery slope of "morality" the above logic isn't far off...

[texasmade]

if you ask educated level headed adults that dont use tobacco and tobacco users if they think it is morally right then they would say yes. Adults have the right to choose. Now if you asked the same group of people if it was morally right for adult tobacco users to purchase it you would get this answer "different people have different morals its their decison."

now take both of the aforementioned questions and ask an "educated" anti-tobacco "expert" and you would get "NO its not morally right for a company to exploit someone's addiction." and "NO the tobacco users cant make wise decisions because their addiction clouds their judgement."


thread closed :twisted:

[beja]

Wonder if he's part of that crack investigative team that wrote the story about that top secret ingredient, sodium carbonate :?: :roll:

I thought the top secret ingredient was fiberglass? :lol:

[Anthony]

I thought the top-secret ingredient was love.

[texasmade]

I thought the top-secret ingredient was love.

its unicorn tears

[PsychoHazard]

I thought the top-secret ingredient was love.

its unicorn tears

I always thought it was the tormented souls of the innocent.

[Undersökning]

Me and my group asks this question since we´re writing an academic paper on the subject.

In this academic paper we discuss the moral and ethical questions around snus and tries to find out what the general view is on the matter.

This isn´t just about the product snuff(Snus) itselft but also about what measures the government has the right to take, agianst the sale of snus.

Is it their responsibility to protect its citizens from harmful products by increasing the tax on snuff, or prohibiting people from using these products in public places such as restaurants, cafes, concerts and football matches?

it is not a citizen's right to decide over their own lives?

We can take a look at other products. Coffee, for example, it is the world's second most sold and purchased product. Again, the sale based on people's addiction. Has anybody the right to say to you that you are not permitted to buy or use coffee due to its characteristics?

[lxskllr]

The government's primary responsibility is to stay out of the way. They can educate if they choose to, but other than that, it's the people's decision to use a product, or not.

[skruf_mcgruff]

I don't really see how it is a question. There are all sorts of unhealthy products and drugs available in the world, unless they start hiding samples into your tooth paste or something then we all make a decision to buy them or not. As an american I see people use things that cause much more problems than swedish snus on a daily basis, yet nobody seems to threaten to ban those.

[spirit72]

Me and my group asks this question since we´re writing an academic paper on the subject.

In this academic paper we discuss the moral and ethical questions around snus and tries to find out what the general view is on the matter.

...Okay.


And your group is ________________.

And the academic institution your group is associated with is _________.

And the funding for this paper, if any, is provided by _______________.

You'll forgive us, I hope, if some of us are a bit guarded about this.