I know what you're sayin' here Keith, however SOMETIMES "the choice" simply isn't there to be made.
Let's say you're going through a town and want mexican food that day. And then you find that every mexican restaurant in that town, in order to cater to the widest possible customer base, has decided to have a smoking section in their resturants. Okay, good so far, RIGHT?! Well, I think you know how cigarette smoke doesn't exactly stay where it belongs, RIGHT?!
So then you maybe say, well in THAT case, I just go to Denny's(as a last resort, you understand
) and then you discover that they ALSO allow smoking in there, for that very same reason I mentioned earlier: the widest possible customer base. So THEN you spot an Italian restuarant, and...well, maybe you see my point about so-called "choice" and allowing "The Marketplace" to dictate the allowing of patrons to smoke.
I THINK, and maybe I'm wrong here, BUT, I THINK(once again) that the reason AMERICANS ESPECIALLY(it seems) resent some laws that promote public health(as in this case when we're ESPECAILLY talking about a KNOWN CARCINOGEN here) is that they, like small children, don't want to be told what to do...PERIOD, even IF it's for they're own good! Once again...just like little kids!..."WAAAAAAAAA!"
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We now take this break to advise those who may be reading this that the author FULLY understands that by saying the above he acknowledges that it will not make him a very popular person...BUT...just like MOST of what he says, he REALLY doesn't CARE!!!...and now BACK to this authors treatise.
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Ya see Keith, a while back I went to my urgent care center because I JUST couldn't shake this cold and cough I had. I told the doctor there that, yes, I smoke and told him I fully understand that I'm a moron for doing it, and if he wanted to give me a lecture about the evil of smoking to go right ahead.
And do you know what THAT moron told me??? Well, he told me that he didn't think lecturing people was right! NOT that it didn't do any good, BUT that it wasn't RIGHT for him to tell me to quit smoking!!! Can you BELIEVE THAT???
Well then I told him that that kind'a thinking was pretty darn dumb, and to go right ahead and lecture AWAY!!(he didn't though, the shmuck)
And reason I didn't mind him lecturing me was....well....do you recall the somewhat heated debates he often get into around here whenever I call someone "a moron" who doesn't wear a helmet when they're ridin' around??? Well, ya see I WOULDN'T mind it so much IF those folks would just ADMIT that they WERE a moron for not wearing a helmet, just like I admit that I'M a MORON for smokin'! But THOSE morons ALWAYS seem to wanna give me a HARD TIME about that by DENYING that they are morons JUST LIKE ME!!!
And BOY, does THAT ever p*ss me off to no end!
Ane SOOOOO....it just proves to ME that the less someone is likely be a little "self-aware", the MORE likely they'll whine just like those the little kids I mentioned earlier WHENEVER somebody tells 'em what's GOOD FOR 'EM!!!
(note: ALL the facts given in the above argument are true enough, however some of the suppositions, though meant to be taken somewhat seriously, were presented as "tongue-in-cheek" as to be a mite more "entertaining"...and how much you FIND it "entertaining" is ALL up to YOU!!!)
