Re: Obama Presidential Thread XIX: Starting a new chapter
How much of a health threat is side stream smoke in a football stadium? The occasional stray molecule of smoke pales in comparison to the other pollutants floating around in our air. Banning smoking in outdoor venues has become a matter of preference, not health. Therefore, my preference to avoid seeing fat ladies in spandex pants is just as valid. You can compare fast food to cancer all you like, but it's not true and when you climb down off your high horse you'll understand. What gives you or anyone else the right to restrict or dicate the diets of other Americans? It's condescension on steroids.
As it happens, Dr. Mengele and his pals kept extensive records of their "experiments," and it has been a huge ethical problem for scientists ever since: do they make use of these excellent data, knowing how they were obtained. I wasn't comparing anyone to Nazis and only a nearly totally ignorant person would claim so.
How exactly is a fat woman in spandex the same thing? One is something you dont like to see but has no repercussions besides you maybe throwing up. Fast food in urban areas is like a cancer...it is cheap and easy to get. Ya know what happens when you eat that stuff regularly...have ya seen the stats?
And plus I didnt say they should make it illegal...in fact I said I didnt want a law outlawing it, I said I had no issue if the mayor of Minneapolis made it tougher on them to set up shop. There is a huge leap between what you are talking about and what I said I supported...put on your bifocals old man and read a bit
And hey, the Nazis were just referenced...yippie!
How much of a health threat is side stream smoke in a football stadium? The occasional stray molecule of smoke pales in comparison to the other pollutants floating around in our air. Banning smoking in outdoor venues has become a matter of preference, not health. Therefore, my preference to avoid seeing fat ladies in spandex pants is just as valid. You can compare fast food to cancer all you like, but it's not true and when you climb down off your high horse you'll understand. What gives you or anyone else the right to restrict or dicate the diets of other Americans? It's condescension on steroids.
As it happens, Dr. Mengele and his pals kept extensive records of their "experiments," and it has been a huge ethical problem for scientists ever since: do they make use of these excellent data, knowing how they were obtained. I wasn't comparing anyone to Nazis and only a nearly totally ignorant person would claim so.
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