On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Larry Lyons <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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. These very vulnerable people made a choice to smoke. We, the tax payers, did not force them to do so, so why should we, the tax payers, have to pay for the result of this behavior? > > > And who died and made you God? Are you willing to individually judge who is > to live and die? And what are your criteria? Not trying to play God, merely pointing out that I do not think we cannot continue to protect people from their own stupidity. > > > 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. Not condemning them to death, merely making them realize the consequences of their own actions. Big difference. I'd like to think that even a tree fucker like your self can see that. > > > The ones who claimed that certitude in the past have invariably lead to > places like Auschwitz and Bergen-Belson. Once again...you prove how much of a fucking asshole you really are. I used to think that you were passionate about your ideals, now I realize you truly are just a docuhe bag. > > > > > >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. > > I don't recall anyone talking about how all these smokes have contributed to the current economic situation. -- Scott Stroz --------------- If I laugh after I insult you, it doesn't mean I don't mean it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:287443 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
