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I just started dating a girl who smokes regularly. I don't like that. But there are tons of things about her I do like. That is why I want to continue to see her even though I hate the fact that she smokes. Do you think it can work long-term?

Many measures have been created because people do stupid things. Maybe we should remove some of these measures that allow people to be stupid and let nature do its thing. 3 examples below:

1. Pedestrians

Society as a whole would rather place the burden of protecting pedestrians on the drivers rather than having the pedestrians actually care about their own safety. For example, society expects that, even if the pedestrian jaywalks on a 50mph road instead of simply waiting for the light to change and the driver cannot stop in time, the driver should swerve into a ditch rather than hit the pedestrian. The natural selection way would be that, if the pedestrian made this mistake and got hit, the driver would not be seen as at fault. Obviously nobody wants the pedestrian hit, but if their actions caused the issue then it shouldn't be expected for the driver to hurt their livelihood or car to accommodate someone who didn't care about their own safety. If the law made the pedestrian take some accountability, then maybe they would wait their turn before crossing the road.

2. Consuming things not meant for human consumption.

Before the Tide Pod challenge, nobody needed to be told to not eat something meant to clean clothes. Now tide pods have to have warnings to not be consumed. There are many things like this. The natural selection way would be to let the idiots learn the hard way. Maybe they survive and maybe they don't. If they live, they learn. If not, then their stupidity caused it and likely they died before they could be a nuisance in the future at someone else's expense.

3. "Pranks".

Saw a youtube video where a guy goes into dangerous hoods asking people "Want to get popped?" then reaches into his pocket to pull out a soda. If you ask me that and reach in your pocket, then I'm assuming you plan to smoke me and I have the right to defend myself. Natural selection way would be to place the blame on the idiot youtuber, not the person in fear of getting popped.

My girlfriend smokes every days. We are both in our 40s, so we are both getting older. I am worried about the long-term health problems caused by smoking. I am not sure I want to marry someone who has long-term health risks. She says she is addicted.

What good do smoke detectors do aside from make an unbearably annoying noise when there’s nothing going on?

I saw him at the RNC convention in his first speech after the incident. He wouldn't kiss his wife, and when he was talking he was so sad and low energy. A couple weeks later he seemed to be back to his old provocative self, but then he got angry over Biden dropping out of the race, because he said he wasn't prepared to debate Kamala, and it seemed like he was scared of her. I didn't watch the debate, but I heard that he got smoked and he held back and didn't capitalize on opportunities. Now Kamala who said she will only do one debate, is asking for another debate and Trump, who's usually the one pushing for this sort of things, says he does not want another debate. He also hasn't been saying as many controversial things as he had in the past.