To: Desdemona; Canticle_of_Deborah
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To: nickcarraway
Only teachers cheat on the test, after all the students have a future after school.
To: nickcarraway
"Parents call my show to tell me that when their children see someone smoking, they say, "Look, that person is using drugs!""
Okay, who is the liberal-minded genius who woke up one morning and said "You know what, I'm'a brainwash them kids into thinkin' that smokin' a Marlboro an' smokin' a crack pipe are one n' the same... 'Att'll learn 'em"? Or what'll happen to those kids when they get to Junior High, smoke a Lucky Strike and think "Well I've done drugs and that wasn't so bad... maybe they're lieing about other drugs like heroin too".
Idiots one and all.
4 posted on
07/21/2003 12:02:50 AM PDT by
ThinkFreedom
(Well, that's my 2c, take or leave.)
To: nickcarraway
More American parents would be upset with their teenage children if they smoked a cigarette than if they cheated on a test.More American parents don't smoke.
To: nickcarraway
Dang, Prager is good! Another one out of the ballpark.
6 posted on
07/21/2003 12:10:16 AM PDT by
Humidston
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law)
To: nickcarraway
I'm a nearly completely off-the-stalk reformed smoker. I now smoke between a quarter and a half of a cigarette, every second or third day. I'd give anything to ensure that my kids won't pick up this filthy, useless, unhealthy and expensive habit.
11 posted on
07/21/2003 4:33:43 AM PDT by
Chancellor Palpatine
(Of course I'm really concerned. I make my face look like this and the concerned words come out)
To: nickcarraway
14 posted on
07/21/2003 4:57:09 AM PDT by
uglybiker
(Death Before Decaf!)
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To: nickcarraway
False dichotomy.
43 posted on
07/21/2003 3:15:49 PM PDT by
Junior
(Killed a six pack ... just to watch it die.)
To: nickcarraway
If cheating was equated with lying, perhaps more parents would find cheating more harmful than smoking. Cheating is lying, about your abilities. Smoking is an indulgence in a habit. I don't know how it can be equated with being morally right or wrong.
52 posted on
07/21/2003 3:47:11 PM PDT by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Lurking since 2000.)
To: nickcarraway
I'll bet they would prefer their kid said he/she was gay over them saying they smoke! Smokers have been demonized so much. The hamburger is next.
63 posted on
07/21/2003 6:03:01 PM PDT by
ladyinred
(The left have blood on their hands.)
To: nickcarraway
Cheating on a test is an attempt to acquire better grades, something that parents usually value & which are alleged to impact future success. Smoking is not undertaken for any such long-sighted goal. Therefore cheating is an immoral but rational gamble, while smoking is simply stupid.
65 posted on
07/21/2003 6:52:00 PM PDT by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
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