12-11-2008, 01:29 PM
Might I remind those who demonize the guy that, if he's resumed, he's partaking in a LEGAL activity, the tax dollars from which fund many of your precious programs?
Second - you can look down on smokers all you want. But I don't want to hear it when people start coming down on YOUR activities "because they're dangerous". I'm talking to those of you who ski, ride a snowmobile, drive a car, eat fast food or skateboard.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis
Second - you can look down on smokers all you want. But I don't want to hear it when people start coming down on YOUR activities "because they're dangerous". I'm talking to those of you who ski, ride a snowmobile, drive a car, eat fast food or skateboard.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis