He went into a bout of depression eventually causing his father to quit smoking.
Read that again: He went into a bout of depression eventually causing his father to quit smoking.
Orwellian indeed.
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One day, walking home from the neighborhood store, while I was opening a pack of cigarettes a young man hanging out with a group of his friends called out to me:
"Smoking is bad for you you know."
This was not friendly advice, it was like the mocking of a leper, it contained all the animosity, ridicule and ostrification (sp?) of the term "druggie".
It was an interesting experience for me, being the first time I've been exposed to such a blatent condemnation. I paused to wonder how many others held such opinions but were not as brazen as this young man.
I felt as though I might as well be a "chronic masturbator" or a "eater of bugs" -- I was a legitimate "target for hate" thanks to political correctness. Interesting. Mildly annoying, but OK...
... being in a good mood I replied: "I know, it says so right here" pointing to the pack and implying he was either an idiot or a spiteful little punk in need of an attitude adjustment because his do-gooder mask wasn't fooling anyone.
No, I'm not particularly aggrieved by peoples PC-validated prejudices, but I am forced to be... why? because I am getting FED UP with the sin taxes I pay, sin taxes that only grow in this type of PC environment.
I cannot over-emphasize how FED UP I am. GET OFF MY BACK!
If I go to a store and steal a candy bar enough times, I will end up in jail. This tax steals from me every day. It does so without compassion, without appreciation.
It is immoral, and the whole PC environment surrounding it is a cancer on the dignity of man, a rot on the principles of liberty.
You poke a dog with a stick enough times and he is going to rip your testicles off.
This dog has been poked every day via the sin tax, and is now looking forward to every encounter he has with these Nazis.
No longer on the defense. Not one moment longer.
I will slam you, crack your pathetic little mind like a nut and expose the bile of your Nazism to the world and let them be the judge of where evil lies.
I will slam you, crack your pathetic little mind like a nut and expose the bile of your Nazism to the world and let them be the judge of where evil lies.
EXCELLANT! Another on the front lines.
I think the ANTI's are almost convinced that if the world was smokefree, there would be no more starvation, no more illness, no more war and no more natural disasters.
Wealth expenditure taxes strike me as fair while taxes on wealth creation are not. It's very straightforward to avoid some or even all taxes in a system with just wealth expenditure taxes like sales taxes and sin taxes. Taxes on wealth creation are theft. Why should someone who earns more money pay more taxes if they choose to save it rather than spend it? In an IDEAL world the government would have only taxes on wealth expenditure and no taxes on wealth creation.