Personal Lie-ability

Capitalism Magazine ^ | October 9, 2005 | Carter Laren

[Smile-n-Win]

When faced with a new battle, the enemies of gun manufactures, tobacco companies, fast food chains, and free enterprise in general usually adhere to the following well-tested pattern for whipping-up some public sympathy:

Step 1: Identify people who knowingly and willfully caused harm to themselves or others. For example, a good selection would be someone who smoked for 30 years despite the large warning with the word "cancer" prominently featured on the side of every single pack of cigarettes they ever touched. Another good selection would be someone who loaded a Beretta 92, walked into a 7-Eleven, and shot the clerk.

Step 2: Once the culprits have been identified, erase all evidence of them. Stop talking about them completely and locate the inanimate object that they chose to use as an instrument of destruction. For example, this could be a Virginia Slim, a Ruger, or a super-sized order of fries with extra salt. Conveniently forget the fact that people have free will.

Step 3: Before vilifying the inanimate object, it is necessary to pick an appropriately offensive label. For example, don't call it a "gun," call it an "assault weapon."

[tonycavanagh]

I always get annoyed when discussing drugs they bring out someone who lectures us on the evils of drugs and why we need to fight the war on drugs how they destroyed there life.

I ask why when drugs were illegal did they get into them in the first place.

Why are they not dead, how they manged to kick the habit and are now making good money on a lecture tour or able to write books and articles on the dangers of drug abuse.

[Past Your Eyes]

Hooray for Carter Laren!!

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