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To: CSM
So, your automatic assumption is that smokers "blow smoke in their children's lungs" but when it comes to other toxic items you would want to only take action "if" the children can be proven to be harmed.

Okay, Einstein, I'll explain it to you with small words, so you might understand it. Smoking around children increases their risk of harm. That is a bad thing. We should rightly describe it as "child abuse," but don't out of a misguided notion that it might offend the junkies who like to inhale shit into their lungs. I am opposed to harming children, even if it inconveniences these same drug addicts, on a pragmatic, intellectual and moral basis. Should another action cause similar harm (such as feeding children arsenic, running over them with a car, hitting them with a shovel, or damaging their bodies by using poison for cleaning products), I would oppose these other things for the same pragmatic, intellectual and moral reasons.

60 posted on 05/05/2006 7:55:05 AM PDT by WildHorseCrash
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To: WildHorseCrash
Okay, Einstein, I'll explain it to you with small words, so you might understand it.

Boy, you sure are an ignorant nasty one, aren't you?  For a FReeper!  CSM can understand a lot more then you might think! Jerk.

62 posted on 05/05/2006 7:57:37 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: WildHorseCrash; CSM

I am opposed to my kids bull riding a nuclear missle, like Slim Pickens in doctor strangelove. Other than that, I'll decide how to raise my kids, not you, or the miserable government. Hell, the government can't even fix it's own problems, let alone mine.


64 posted on 05/05/2006 8:00:08 AM PDT by 383rr ((those who choose security over liberty deserve neither; GUN CONTROL=SLAVERY)
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To: WildHorseCrash

"Smoking around children increases their risk of harm."

Transporting children in automobiles is a greater increase in the risk of harm for children. In addition, explain how the rates of asthma and allergies in children have increased as the smoking rates decrease. Based on that correlation alone, then not smoking around children increases their risk of contracting harmful life long health problems. We better mandate that all parents smoke around their children.

Isn't lifestyle projection great!


67 posted on 05/05/2006 8:00:40 AM PDT by CSM (I went to the gas station this weekend and it was so popular that I had to wait for a pump. D-Chivas)
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To: WildHorseCrash

Your arguments would be better received if you were to temper the language and the personal insults.


101 posted on 05/05/2006 8:40:55 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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