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Posted by Paul in Mich on July 15, 2004 at 15:55:24 from (68.188.227.110):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: OT: banned ins posted by Ron on July 15, 2004 at 13:24:30:
Ron, Ultimately, common sense should prevail. My Father told me that cigarettes werent good for anyone, and that was way back in the early 50's before government even got into the mix. It isnt rocket science. Why depend on government when we all know they depend on smokers to pay these incredibly high sin taxes to fund other pet projects. Common sense must override that scenerio for sure. Alcohol related deaths on highways are of epidemic porportions, yet if we wait for government to do anything about it, we may hit the lottery first. We do not need government outlining our lives for us, but somewhere people choose to abdicate personal responsibility and allow the government to make choices that we should be making for ourselves. We all take risks every day and that is what a free society is all about. Maybe you do, (hopefully not) but I do not need government, which cannot be fully trusted, to be my physical, spiritual, or moral police. I own that part of me, and will not give it up. Your previous response stating that there is no benefit to cigarettes is not entirely true. People who have had drug addiction rip out their lives have found that were it not for cigarettes or other tobacco products, that they would have surely relapsed back into drug addiction. I'd say that was more than a zero sum gain for those people and society as a whole. As you say, nothing is totally black or white, yet we can't and we shouldnt remove everything from our lives that put us at risk. a renouned scientist, and his name escapes me, theorized that everything is poisonous to some degree, even the purest of water. The only variable is the level of toxicity. It just takes far less cyanide to kill us than mass quantities of water.
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