Smoking emote.

[Reinha]

If you think smoking and self mutilation/ suicidal actions are the same i don't have anything to argue with you about. There's just something wrong with you. You're taking your anti-smoking stance a tad far. Smoking any sort of substance is not akin to self mutilation or suicide. You really need to not make comparisons to things you clearly know nothing about/ haven't seen someone go through.

So you still can't offer any reasons why I'm wrong. Alright! I equated smoking to self-harm because it meets the definition. Merriam-Webster:

Definition of self-harm
: the act of purposely hurting oneself (as by cutting or burning the skin) as an emotional coping mechanism

Reasons people smoke:

Feeling down or sad
Having trouble sleeping
Feeling irritable‚ on edge‚ grouchy
Having trouble thinking clearly and concentrating
Feeling restless and jumpy
Slower heart rate
Feeling more hungry or gaining weight

You could argue that self-cutting is a more severe form of self-harm and often accompanied by more serious mental problems than smoking. On the other hand, smoking causes irreversible damage to internal organs, can physically hurt people around you, is more difficult to stop and shortens the life span. Both are bad in their own right and share the element of being destructive habits, something our characters are not yet able to express with emotes. And why should we be able to do that? Smoking is a more culturally acceptable form of self-harm, but this is actually a point against including it in the game and other forms of entertainment.

[LolitaBansheeMeru]

So you still can't offer any reasons why I'm wrong. Alright! I equated smoking to self-harm because it meets the definition. Merriam-Webster:



Reasons people smoke:



You could argue that self-cutting is a more severe form of self-harm and often accompanied by more serious mental problems than smoking. On the other hand, smoking causes irreversible damage to internal organs, can physically hurt people around you, is more difficult to stop and shortens the life span. Both are bad in their own right and share the element of being destructive habits, something our characters are not yet able to express with emotes. And why should we be able to do that? Smoking is a more culturally acceptable form of self-harm, but this is actually a point against including it in the game and other forms of entertainment.

um lol
1st of all, who cares about culturally culture changes every 4 years anyways so really...
Second, there are other reasons that people smoke... Hell, I Occasionally smoke after Test/ or doing something that took a lot of thinking to relax so that right there disproves all of that statement.
Third. Many native cultures smoked from pipes as rituals and religions moments.
4th... Well, I shouldn't go into it, but I'll just leave it at there is no such thing as mental illness that's what people who are inferior to those of us who are better than them that they place that term on people that are diffrent in any aspect.
5th. Its noones business at all rather its self harm or not if your not living in that persons body you have no right to judge or be in their business and should piss off and mind your own business.

[Mavrias]

So you still can't offer any reasons why I'm wrong. Alright! I equated smoking to self-harm because it meets the definition. Merriam-Webster:



Reasons people smoke:



You could argue that self-cutting is a more severe form of self-harm and often accompanied by more serious mental problems than smoking. On the other hand, smoking causes irreversible damage to internal organs, can physically hurt people around you, is more difficult to stop and shortens the life span. Both are bad in their own right and share the element of being destructive habits, something our characters are not yet able to express with emotes. And why should we be able to do that? Smoking is a more culturally acceptable form of self-harm, but this is actually a point against including it in the game and other forms of entertainment.

I can list a million and one things that can be considered self harm by your frankly vague definition. A bad habit is fundamentally different from self-mutilation.

Damn, man, didn't know tobacco was the only thing that can be smoked. Especially since thats not the plant even listed in game as being what NPCs use. Also nice job pretending that those "reasons" you listed weren't literally ripped directly from the withdrawal symptoms section of your source. That's just dishonest academic practice, bro.

If a smoking emote is implemented, you don't have to use it. I don't know who gave ya cancer with their second hand smoke but i promise you, you can't get it from pixels in a video game.