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  1. Shotgun
    Sure, insurance companies should make anyone who knowingly puts their lives at risk pay for their own health care costs... Hmm, that would include anyone who consumes more than one alcoholic beverage per day, anyone who chooses to eat a less-than-perfect diet, anyone who doesn't exercise regularly, anyone who drives over the speed limit, umm, SKYDIVERS, etc., etc. etc...
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    Including you. But your beliefs are important to you, and that's ok. Though, as you have probably already figured out, if you want to express such beliefs on most public (non-religious) forums, you're likely going to hear what others think of those beliefs. And a lot of it likely won't be what you want to hear. (But that is not to say that you should stop expressing your beliefs.)
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    If an employee who knowingly accepted a job in a BAR - where people drink alcohol and smoke - suddenly wants the bar owner to be responsible for completely protecting their health, then they should also demand that every single customer be monitored to make sure that they are not consuming more than the amount of alcohol that would cause intoxication. A bar is simply not a place to go work if you are looking for a healthy work environment, unless you consider being around drunk people all the time to be healthy... Now a restaurant, I suppose I can see the argument there. (And just for the record, I quit smoking about four years ago. I now hate the smell of cigarette/cigar smoke and prefer to go to places that don't allow smoking inside. But I still think that a bar owner should be allowed to make such decisions for themselves.)
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    I think that, for the most part, bar and restaurant owners should be allowed to make their own decisions about whether to allow smoking in their buildings.
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    Judging from this thread, people don't generally watch any of the news shows for political interpretations, but rather to check out hot babes... which makes me wonder about your little thing for Jon Stewart. (Hmm, and now that I think about it, Rich likes to watch Jon Stewart too. )
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    Not sure exactly, but somewhere around jump #450.
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    Dont worry its not that bad you get used to it after a couple times Oh great, I'll have Amazon as company... Hmm, actually that's not such a bad thing....
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    Quade, you're a horrible moderator. Go back into your sandbox. (Oh Jesus, now I'm probably going to get myself banned!)
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    No, the 14% are mostly those of us who don't feel the need to have some sort of warm and fuzzy story explained to us as the reason for our existence. Am I afraid of being accountable to "God,"? Fuck no. But if it makes you feel better to think that I am going to Hell since I don' t believe in your fairytales, go right ahead and sound off about them...
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    Woo hoo! Score one for the alcoholics!!! Oh, wait a miunute...
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    She nor I were trying to convince you of that. Quite the contrary actually. Ok! Damn you... I just want to have something to bitch about!
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    Well I have seen first-hand the destructiveness of alcoholism - so I can say that it's not exactly a pretty thing. I have also seen the destruction caused by other drugs, so if you would like to debate the issue then I am here to talk, but I doubt that you could convince me that any drugs (including alcohol) are not dangerous to society.Quote
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    A person can use a small amount of meth without becoming "impaired." The fact is, all drugs are ok in small amounts, but not ok when abused. Anyone who thinks that alcohol is better than these other drugs is - as I've already said - horribly misinformed. Drug abuse is drug abuse - alcohol is a drug - if you abuse alcohol then you are a drug abuser, no different than someone who abuses meth, coke, whatever...
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    I just can't agree with that. Alcohol is one of the most addictive drugs around; the fact that it is legal and that many people do not become addicted to it does not negate the fact that it is an extremely addictive and dangerous drug.
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    There are people who do meth that are not addicts. I have seen enough people addicted to both, and enough people who use without abusing, that I really can't say which one is more addictive. They are very similar drugs, yet the fact that society has approved of one of them and not the other makes them appear to be quite different.
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    Agreed, but I still would say that alcohol is just as addictive as meth or heroin, if given to the right person. Unfortunately, I have to agree with that too. Meth is bad.
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    I'm 45 years old??? Why hasn't anyone told me this??? Oh wait, 2006 minus 1971 only equals 35, so I'm really not that old... so what are you talking about??? Hmm, the 'war on drugs' has probably been around ever since anyone had anything more important to do than minding their own business...
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    Good idea. I had an employee that had this happen to him. He was grateful, that meant he didn't have to go all over the courtyard looking for shit. The neighbor brought it to his front step - He only ever had to clean up one spot - and he didn't have to go far to get there. Well I'm sure that there is some great philospophy to be found in that story... something about how the shit that we leave around all comes back to us, or something like that...
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    Yep, I've seen an 18-year-old meth addict on a three-day bender, and I've seen an 18-year-old alcoholic on a three-day bender. Both were scary, and neither can say that they are better than the other one. Alcohol is easily as dangerous of a drug as meth is. If you think otherwise, then you are horribly misinformed.
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    Not really... addictive personalites are addictive personalities - give them any addictive drug and they will most likely become addicted to it. I don't know that legalization would help such problems, but making it a crime has obviously not solved the problem. As for the prostitution thing, it should be legal for an adult woman to sell her body for money - who are we to tell her what she should do with her own body? A 12-year-old or a 14-year-old? Now we're getting into questions of when a person should be able to make important decisions for themselves...
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    Welcome to my world... This is normal for me, seriously...
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    Good idea.
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    Hmm, I have no kids and no beer cans, yet I still have a problem with mice (actually rats) and moles. Poisoning these pests doesn't seem too much different to me than poisoning a neighbor's nuisance cat. (But to be honest, I have a pretty hard time killing any animal - it would have to be causing a serious problem that I had tried many ways to solve before I could bring myself to actually kill it!)
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    I would definitely vote for you if you were the third option in that election. And actually, I think that you would make a pretty good President.
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    I'll keep my cat in the house if you keep the kids and beer cans and trash out of my yard along with the mice and the moles. You have neighbors that have mice and moles as pets?