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To: microgood
they were both specifically designed to insult,

However in the discussion about smoking in public, an addict will rationalize his actions as well as rationalize the consequence (i.e. we are all going to die anyways; I'm not addicted, I just have a habit I like; etc. ). Addicts often use irrational thinking, so therefore its is relevant.

261 posted on 03/30/2004 3:45:22 PM PST by VRWC_minion
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To: VRWC_minion
However in the discussion about smoking in public, an addict will rationalize his actions as well as rationalize the consequence (i.e. we are all going to die anyways; I'm not addicted, I just have a habit I like; etc. ). Addicts often use irrational thinking, so therefore its is relevant.

In discussing whether a private business has the right to allow smoking in his establishment versus having government forbidding it at the point of a gun is more about freedom versus tyranny, not about addiction versus non-addiction.

But I must be clouded by my addiction to think that way. Now I get it. Since I am an addict, any argument I may espouse is automatically rejected since I am an addict. A nice circular argument.
265 posted on 03/30/2004 4:08:40 PM PST by microgood
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