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Think of the children!!!
This is why people with children absolutely FUCKING hate ... people with children. This law used "Think of the children" to stop people from smoking in their own motherfucking cars. Unbelievable.
(And no, I don't smoke.)
The AOL commercial with the nanny state mom holding her diapered kid, lecturing us all about how we NEED protection from the Internet will be the image burned into my mind for the rest of my life. Nobody who has kids should be allowed to vote. When the last one turns 16 you can vote again. Otherwise, look at this nonsense.
This is why people with children absolutely FUCKING hate ... people with children. This law used "Think of the children" to stop people from smoking in their own motherfucking cars. Unbelievable.
(And no, I don't smoke.)
The AOL commercial with the nanny state mom holding her diapered kid, lecturing us all about how we NEED protection from the Internet will be the image burned into my mind for the rest of my life. Nobody who has kids should be allowed to vote. When the last one turns 16 you can vote again. Otherwise, look at this nonsense.
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I know what was bothering me about that.
They are using the legal system to do the job of a parent. Good parents would not smoke in the car with the kids. They know the effects of long term second hand smoke. Bad parents could give a crap if the kids grew up with allergies and nicotine addictions and whatever else. So the problem is with the bad parents. If they were to fix the bad parent syndrome that seems to be rampant in the Maine area there would be no need for the cigarette police.
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They are using the legal system to do the job of a parent. Good parents would not smoke in the car with the kids. They know the effects of long term second hand smoke. Bad parents could give a crap if the kids grew up with allergies and nicotine addictions and whatever else. So the problem is with the bad parents. If they were to fix the bad parent syndrome that seems to be rampant in the Maine area there would be no need for the cigarette police.
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Concerned Parent
Is there a problem with "bad parents" ? Did they run a poll or census and feed the results through a Cray Super Computer to determine that yes, smoking is harmful to children and that yes, it would be effective to sort out those stupid fucken punks who would dare like a cig in front of a toddler?
Surely there is a logical and thoughtful process behind the law, instead of someone, say a member of the State Legislature, driving into work and seeing an "adult" smoking in front of a child and putting "smoking bad" with "children" and creating an issue where no one else could give a happy god damn fuck about it?
About the government; issues are antedotal, somehow they are related to a Congress woman or stupid fuck sitting in office who has expierenced some event that they think should be expunged, even if its one person doing it on a bad day or in a habit they haven't realized its a habit.
So... We get a group of busy bodies with POWER and give them the ability and oppertunity to use THAT POWER to enforce an issue they percieve to be an issue and in effect, over apply one idea or aspect to everyone and everything.
The Federal Government sucks because they are allowed to apply a consequence through force, to a specific instance or action in only an overgenerlized sense; laws apply to everyone regardless of the consequences.
And then theres the idea that the police or "authority" will know best when to apply a consequence to a context when the truth, if they'd just leave the issue alone, no one would care.
So... Lets ban the sun! It causes skin cancer!
Also, I need a smoke.
Surely there is a logical and thoughtful process behind the law, instead of someone, say a member of the State Legislature, driving into work and seeing an "adult" smoking in front of a child and putting "smoking bad" with "children" and creating an issue where no one else could give a happy god damn fuck about it?
About the government; issues are antedotal, somehow they are related to a Congress woman or stupid fuck sitting in office who has expierenced some event that they think should be expunged, even if its one person doing it on a bad day or in a habit they haven't realized its a habit.
So... We get a group of busy bodies with POWER and give them the ability and oppertunity to use THAT POWER to enforce an issue they percieve to be an issue and in effect, over apply one idea or aspect to everyone and everything.
The Federal Government sucks because they are allowed to apply a consequence through force, to a specific instance or action in only an overgenerlized sense; laws apply to everyone regardless of the consequences.
And then theres the idea that the police or "authority" will know best when to apply a consequence to a context when the truth, if they'd just leave the issue alone, no one would care.
So... Lets ban the sun! It causes skin cancer!
Also, I need a smoke.