> but would start with > educating people (beginning in elementary school) with > the hazards associated with certain lifestyle choices > - and gradually making people responsible for their > own folly -- we could ~ halve the chronic disease > burden with lifestyle changes >
But that would go against the conservative ethos that people are 100% responsible for each and every thing that happens to them in their life and that no one can or should do anything about it, except to sneer at and lecture them if and when they make choices that the conservatives don't happen to agree with. Oh, and to make all of us pray to Jesus Christ even if we don't want to - conservatives are very big on that. And before any of the conservatives on this list start to sputter and huff and puff that I'm mischaracterizing them - yes. I am. Not every conservative acts like I pretend they do above. Big deal. Enough do that I don't think I'm being any more unfair than, oh, say, Ann Coulter or any of the sneering lecturing pigs on Fox News Channel. Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last." - Dr Jerry Pournelle _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
