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Wed Jul-30-08 11:17 AM
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Why aren't people bitching about their right to use lead paint? |
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If the government has no right to regulate harmful substances, doesn't that apply to all harmful substances, or just ones that don't make us feel really really good?
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:19 AM
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1. I want sawdust in my hamburgers, dammit! |
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Who is the government to be telling restaurants they can't put sawdust in ground beef?
Oh, and another thing: employees MUST wash hands?
What is this? Naziland?
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:23 AM
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5. Why not let someone use Vioxx? |
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Hey, if we want them to use cocaine, why not Vioxx?
Wouldn't a government have to recall these drugs?
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:25 AM
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7. Hey, if somebody wants to make their own bathtub vioxx, that's fine with me. |
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Doctors prescribing it is a whole different issue.
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:19 AM
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2. Some people never stopped using it. |
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:21 AM
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4. So now it's OK to pick on someone for being a little ugly? |
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Plus, I think they've got something to compensate, you know what they say about big noses and ears, yep big floppy pancreas!
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:28 AM
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12. Bill O'reilly's parents?? |
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:20 AM
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3. That's a pretty good point. Also, who says I can't use napalm to kill insects? |
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:24 AM
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6. That's a Monty Python sketch. |
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:26 AM
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8. Marijuana is a harmful substance? |
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:30 AM
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15. It doesn't seem like people are picking up that this thread is about pot. |
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Edited on Wed Jul-30-08 11:31 AM by ihavenobias
Personally, I don't smoke it or care for it but I *do* care about the wasted money and lives in jail over something that should be legal or at least decriminalized.
At any rate, it's not a high priority issue for me (very low on the list actually).
PS---Oh well, at least the government doesn't have the right to stop people from making bad analogies, right?
;)
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:33 AM
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18. I thought it was about trans fats. |
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:35 AM
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20. I'm pretty sure it's about pot because the same author just had a big thread on pot |
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:41 AM
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But I hadn't noticed it was the same rube when I first posted.
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:27 AM
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9. Oh, and why start a new thread to continue another one? |
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:28 AM
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11. He didn't get pwned badly enough in the other one. |
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He's a bit of a masochist.
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:28 AM
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10. DDT used to get rid of my aphids really good |
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The new stuff isn't as good as DDT. What about that ?
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:29 AM
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13. I think the complaints are regarding things people consider as only affecting themselves |
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It's how I feel about seat belts. If I choose to not wear one no one else is opened to any harm but myself. If I drive drunk then I open the possibility to affect others. Haven't heard of anyone being killed in an accident because the other driver didn't have their seat belt on.
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Wed Jul-30-08 12:23 PM
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30. The same case can be made for motorcycle helmets |
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Aside from the fact that it really is a good idea to use these things, the only rational argument in favor of belt/helmet laws from a societal standpoint is that using them reduces the stress on the people who have to clean up the mess. There's also the case that requiring people to behave safely reduces medical expenses (particularly relevant when the expenses are paid by the state), but that IMO opinion is a risky route to go since the same argument can be applied to tobacco, alcohol, red meat, transfats, mandatory exercise, etc...
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:29 AM
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14. I like the analogy, but for MJ the analogy falls apart |
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how many people have died, gotten birth defects, or been disabled due to smoking marijuana, compared to lead paint or even alcohol?
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:34 AM
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What about those who have been indirectly influenced by harmful substances even though they may not be a user of the substance? What about the unborn child of a pot addict? Should we not be fighting to protect them at least?
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Wed Jul-30-08 12:16 PM
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29. "the unborn child of a pot addict"? |
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can you please provide links to the addiction rates of pot and its effects on the unborn?
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:30 AM
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16. I'm the chairman of the "bring asbestos back to our schools" association. |
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:33 AM
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17. who said the govt. doesn't have the right to regulate harmful substances? |
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Edited on Wed Jul-30-08 11:34 AM by aspergris
Who?
note that being against the war on drugs (criminalizing ingestion of certain drugs) =/= being against harmful substance regulation
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:41 AM
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22. Being against the 'War On Drugs'=Being Against INEFFECTIVE & Expensive Regulation Of Substances n/t |
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:54 AM
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28. correct. and most importantly |
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being againt CRIMINALIZATION of the use of those substances.
regulating is one thing.
throwing people in jail is another
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:40 AM
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21. "If the government has no right to regulate harmful substances" |
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:50 AM
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24. The Feeling Good Part Is What The Hypermoralists Don't Like |
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If it makes you feel good, that's bad. So we must regulate just those things. Not my opinion. Just my read on those who think that way. The Professor
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Wed Jul-30-08 02:31 PM
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32. Not all things that make people feel good are good. |
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:52 AM
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25. Americans For Asbestos Freedom! n/t |
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:53 AM
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26. Lead paint was delicious, i mourns it. |
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Wed Jul-30-08 11:54 AM
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27. It's not illegal to eat/consume lead paint. n/t |
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Wed Jul-30-08 12:25 PM
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31. Can't get addicted to paint like you get to nicotine. |
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addicts will fight to keep their dope. They can't help it.
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