Well on that point you are correct. The unfortunate situation is that if we were ever to actually hit police state, that a police state is a stable equilibrium which can't be easily broken from. It is also true that people are lazy and don't quite want to accept their duties and responsibilities as freemen. We may not get things this election, but I ain't gonna give up trying; freedom and liberty are always worth fighting for. One day we will awaken the people, I hope by that point it isn't too late; but I have faith in the American people that when push comes to shove enough will stand up for freedom.
Maybe cops should start enforcing every little illegal thing they see happen, and then people will probably realize the long leash the police give the public.
I understand that on the short term some leniency in enforcement isn't necessarily bad. The problem is that we have aggregated it over a much larger set of laws and that has become bad. I'm not so happy that police selectively enforce because if they never did we would have had a better feedback mechanism from the people into which laws are allowed to exist and much of the unjust selectively enforced laws wouldn't have lived long; we wouldn't reach police state because there would be enough of a servo on the part of the people to prevent it. Maybe if there was a step potential right now wherein all laws become enforced equally, we would end up with a lot of people in jail and such. But even that could be the jarring movement necessary to put people into actively watching what laws are passed and preventing unjust ones from being established.
If you start affecting a large portion of people's daily lives, you will motivate the people to respond; that is why I think all laws should be uniformly enforced. Unjust laws would quickly be stricken down, we would be left with the majority of the laws doing nothing more than protecting the rights of the individual...which is all laws should be doing, if you ain't infringing upon the rights of others you should be free to do as you like.
Smoking should be banned in all public places, including places of public accomodation. It should also be banned in your home/car if you have children under 18 residing there. If you want to smoke, do so in a way where the majority of us don't have to put up with your noxious fumes.
No one is forcing you to be around smokers. Smokers chose to smoke, and you chose to secondhand-smoke by being around them.
Smoking should be banned in all public places, including places of public accomodation. It should also be banned in your home/car if you have children under 18 residing there. If you want to smoke, do so in a way where the majority of us don't have to put up with your noxious fumes.
Smoking should be banned in all public places, including places of public accomodation. It should also be banned in your home/car if you have children under 18 residing there. If you want to smoke, do so in a way where the majority of us don't have to put up with your noxious fumes.
We all know how much I hate smoking (hence, the posting of this thread).
I just don't get it (although maybe it will help with overpopulation).
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No one is forcing you to be around smokers. Smokers chose to smoke, and you chose to secondhand-smoke by being around them.
Driving should be banned in all public places, including places of public accommodation. It should also be banned in your neighborhood if you have children under 18 residing there. If you want to drive, do so in a way that the majority of us don't have to put up with your noxious fumes.
Being smelly should be banned in all public places, including places of public accommodation. It should also be banned in your home/car if you have children under 18 residing there. If you want to be smelly, do so in a way where the majority of us don't have to put up with your noxious rank smell.
Being gay should be banned in all pubic places, including places of public accommodation. It should also be banned in your home/car if you have children under 18 residing there. If you want to be boned in the ***, do so in a way where the majority of us don't have to be scarred for life by watching it.
See where I am getting at here partner?
I love to smoke. I can't stand breathing the same air as those nasty non-smokers especially in a restaurant. Eck! cough cough.
If smoking doesn't kill me then I'll probably die in an auto accident or be shot by a burglar. I might start drinking three Mountain Dews a day and die of liver cancer.
One thing's for certain. I'm not getting out of this world alive and neither is the article's author or any of you guys! Unless you take faith in eternal life into consideration. Then all bets are off!:mrgreen:
---While I agree that there should be more stringent controls on emmissions, at least people using automobiles has an economically constructive purpose. BEsides, you won't get me on that one as I generally use a bicycle as my primary means of transportation.
These last two are so asanine as to not deserve comment. Smoking is one of the most noxious activities in the world today. Personally, I think it should be banned. Short of that, smoke where it won't affect anyone else. Comparing any of these other things to cigarette smoke is simply absurd and rediculous.
I don't choose to be around them if they come to where I am and smoke around me. Children don't choose to be around them if they light up in teir home. Smokers are the most selfish people on earth. If you want to smoke, fine. However, don't do so in a way that affects the civilized people of the world who don't smoke.
Smoking is one of the most noxious activities in the world today. Personally, I think it should be banned. Short of that, smoke where it won't affect anyone else. Comparing any of these other things to cigarette smoke is simply absurd and rediculous.
Such a simple concept, I don't understand why people can't grasp it.
It's not as simple as you would think. When I walk to get my hair cut after work, I get stuck walking behind someone who's smoking. I pass them so they're behind me. Yet, there's another person walking in front of me smoking. There are people standing outside of buildings smoking. I can't get away from it. I walk from the subway station to my home. There are people smoking all along that short walk. It drives me nuts.
I, for one, am far more affected by being in an enclosed space (store, elevator, office, church, post office, etc) next to a woman who has puffed, powdered, perfumed, lacquered, peeled, painted and fds'ed herself into a stupor.
It makes me sick - literally. I hate, Hate, HATE being around smokers. But they're NOT the worst things to be around IMO.
If you're outside and someone near you is smoking, you are exposed to almost NO secondhand smoke. If you just don't like it (for reasons other than health), that isn't a good enough reason to ban it.
That's right--IN YOUR OPINION.
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