>I can accept that, it took me more than one atempt to quit smoking. One of my more favourite psychology researcher is Stanleu Schacter. Basically he found that people make multiple attempts at quitting smoking. He surveyed an entire town about it - every current smoker and each former smoker. All the former smokers made multiple attempts at quitting smoking. And it followed generally the same pattern, after a very short number of attempts most people quit smoking. > >> >> >> YOu really have a thing for letting poor people die. > > >Not true at all, and you are a fucking asshole for making such an >accusation.
But you did say that you thought that seniors on medicare with emphysema due to smoking should be forced to pay for all the treatment. Hey they're on Medicare, they cannot afford the treatment, they don't have the money. If they can't afford it they will die. So what else am I supposed to think. Either that or you are extremely short sighted about your solution, or just don't give a damn what happens to those very vulnerable people. >I do, however, have a thing for protecting people from their >own stupidity. Its time to start thinning the herd. And who died and made you God? Are you willing to individually judge who is to live and die? And what are your criteria? You think that you have the moral purity that qualifies you to condemn relatively innocent people to a horrible death? Sorry but I cannot see anyone here or probably on this planet who has that qualification. The ones who claimed that certitude in the past have invariably lead to places like Auschwitz and Bergen-Belson. > >Then this goes back to the first item above. You can only kick an >addiction if you truly want to. We can't continue to fund programs that >might work. Not might work. These programs work. Those are average success rates. and those are calculated on very stringent criteria than is far stricter than what is ordinarily considered a success. There are a lot of reliable predictors of success and they are starting to be used. Besides if a single time $75 million annual cost saves over $1 billion annually, to me that's a pretty significant saving to the economy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:287441 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
