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I heard - purely rumors - that he had been subject to tons of racism from the South Koreans and finally snapped one day.

Or more accurately, the military wouldn’t want you if you are too smart.

You’re mixed up, that’s US police, not US military.

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Tankie propaganda. Ignore.

But what about!!!

Does the presumption of innocence still apply even if the crime has already been confirmed to have happened?

Yes. The crime (and the criminal) legally hasn’t been “confirmed”. The point of a trial is to “confirm” it.

For example, there’s probably at least 50 million people who believe no crime occurred.

They’re WRONG, of course, but the point of the trial is to prove them wrong.

There’s no such thing as pleading innocent. The court will either find you guilty or not guilty. The court will not, and in fact cannot, find you innocent. Only not guilty. Or in most cases, “not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt”.

Everyone pleads “not guilty” the first go around, even clearly guilty people, even people who plan to plead guilty.

You can always change a “not guilty” plea to “guilty” (ie, plea deal, etc). It gives your lawyers more time to get a handle on the case, get paperwork together, work with the prosecutors, etc.

Great, but that’s not why they were banned. I was talking about the US though, where a great many jurisdictions are totally banning vapes, or banning all flavored vape juice, due to this hysteria.

Nicotine addiction is not a PROBLEM though, no more than caffeine addiction. The problem is when the only legal way to get caffeine is by a cocktail of red bull and arsenic.

Nicotine is not the issue. The delivery method is the whole problem.

Sounds perfectly fair.

It does mean that, unless we are stupid or have ulterior motives, we should not regulate them equally heavily.

Besides, the science shows vaping is nearly harmless. I think that, again unless we are stupid, we should not be regulating it “heavily” at all. Just ban it for under-18s. Enforce that ban. That’s all.

The delivery method for vaping is water vapor. The delivery method for cigarettes is to wrap the nicotine in poison and then burn it. And you see no difference?

Let me just rephrase what you said. Instead of “the science isn’t fully decided”, which paints an incorrect picture, let’s rather say “of everything they’ve tested in a typical legal vape, everything is essentially harmless. Some of the components haven’t been tested.”

Saying “the science isn’t fully decided” implies “eh, maybe it’s dangerous, maybe it’s not, 50/50”. That’s not at all the case. It’s almost certainly all harmless. Just very addictive.

So fucking regulate them, don’t ban them

The product/delivery method is irrelevant.

What absolute insanity. You see no difference between drinking water and drowning in it?

There is conclusive evidence that in addition to nicotine, most e-cigarette products contain and emit
numerous potentially toxic substances.

In other words, bullshit. The dosage makes the poison.

Bullshit. No study has ever found nicotine to be harmful at the concentrations present in vapes.

Regulate different types of nicotine differently. Vapes are highly addictive but not dangerous. Cigarettes are highly addictive and will kill you.

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