On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 11:03 AM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 11:21:05AM -0400, Sunder wrote:
What part of "Don't impose your ideals on others" do you not understand?
What part of "Don't impose your drug addiction on others" do you not understand? Tobacco junkies are worse than crackheads, especially concerning their irrational behavior.
Actually it may be quite rational. A certain percentage of the population may be self-medicating for type 2 ADD (nicotine fills in for acetylcholine that they lack). Some others use tobacco to focus and tune out the really high levels of environmental noise and distraction that are part and parcel of modern society. Some others may do it just because they like it. Man, cypherpunks has really gone down quite a ways when members are advocating who should be allowed to consume what and when. Next it will be laws to stop people from blowing their noses in restaurants. I say let people go to hell in their own way. Cigarettes or Jack Black or cocaine. But this is typical in the overly 'politically correct' society. The one thing that really amazed me when I moved to Colorado is the number of middle aged hippie types that 30 years ago were blasting the establishment for controlling what they wanted to smoke have now *become* the establishment. A professor friend of mine was smoking some Drum and shooting the bull with me in Pearl Street Mall (in Boulder). Some new ager comes by and reprimands him for generating smoke. He wasn't even a middle-aged hippie. The middle-aged hippie types are now running the city council, living in $500,000 homes and laying down nazi laws for the rest. Hypocrites. Animal Farm come true. Sometimes I really wish for the 70's. Cheesy clothes and Jimmy Carter were small threats to world order. jim burnes