No smoking

[azoomm]

Originally Posted by goof2

True, and to be fair that tendency worked in favor of the cigarette companies for quite a while. It has swung back so hard the other direction that now people appear to believe that even thinking about having a cigarette will give them melanoma while actually smoking one will riddle their body with cancer before they can put it out.

Right, hence the action by the team to get signatures. OMG NOZ!! CANCER!?!! I HAS TO STOP CANCER!!

I don't like cigarette smoke. I used to smoke, and the smell gets to me. That means, I will frequent places that don't have it. It's quite simple, really.

But then, I'm not for regulation on anything. It's made us a society that can't make choices because they are all made for us.

[Kaneman]

Originally Posted by azoomm

But then, I'm not for regulation on anything. It's made us a society that can't make choices because they are all made for us.

And its so easy to see why. People will regularly and openly admit that they're all for true freedom....as long as its a freedom they agree with based on their own personal history.

[azoomm]

Originally Posted by Kaneman

And its so easy to see why. People will regularly and openly admit that they're all for true freedom....as long as its a freedom they agree with based on their own personal history.

Pffffffft

Oh wait.

MY freedoms are important!! I get it.

[Kaneman]

With the end result of that mentality, ironically being, that none of us are free partially because of it.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Kaneman

With the end result of that mentality, ironically being, that none of us are free partially because of it.

We lost our freedom long before they started banning smoking, chief.

[Kaneman]

Originally Posted by marko138

We lost our freedom long before they started banning smoking, chief.

So because we began losing freedoms long ago we should just continue down the same road, ace?

[goof2]

Originally Posted by marko138

We lost our freedom long before they started banning smoking, chief.

True freedom is a nice concept in the abstract but it is impossible to implement. There are too many things one person desires to be free to do that impinge upon the freedoms of others. True freedom for all cannot exist in a functioning society.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Kaneman

So because we began losing freedoms long ago we should just continue down the same road, ace?

Good luck turning things around.

[Kaneman]

Originally Posted by marko138

Good luck turning things around.

Small changes for the better can be seen here and there, though they're usually overshadowed by larger changes in the wrong direction. But it is apathetic attitudes, like the one you are displaying here, that really prevent forward steps or progression.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Kaneman

Small changes for the better can be seen here and there, though they're usually overshadowed by larger changes in the wrong direction. But it is apathetic attitudes, like the one you are displaying here, that really prevent forward steps or progression.

Ok.