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Tim Carmichael wrote: if we see someone engaging in a practice that will, in all likelihood, shorten their natural life and possibly cause pain and suffering to themselves or others
The keyword here is "in all likelihood". So for sure you don't know if or how much it is likely. I don't smoke but I enjoy many things considered deadly including chocolate, coffee, meat, whisky and fast cars. If you would like to remove everything "dangerous" from your life there wasn't be much left...
So answering your question - no. I don't try to bend people to my way. On the other hand I try to enjoy my life, not necessary in the safest way possible
PS. It reminds me the old movie "Demolition Man" - it shows how the world could look like if everything not healthy is forbidden.
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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My father died of cancer not related to smoking (I think he was 82). They gave him one to seven months to live and said he should quit smoking.
Not just once but often during his last few months.
Now I do not smoke but if someone who is dying wants to do something dangerous (and legal)...
By-the-way I tell people I have meet they should stop. Not every day but once in a while.
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I have still never met a smoker that doesn't know about the dangers of smoking, so preaching about it is a bit pointless I find.
However, if anyone smokes in the vicinity of my children I'll demand that they put out the cigarette.
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I vote for engagement - it might help. Not speaking up is very unlikely to help.
/ravi
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Many times when confronted about their habits people get defensive therefore I personally don't say anything.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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"What a Journalist does to comply with the red tape?"(9)
Nice and easy to start you all back after the Hare and Chocolate Holiday.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Falsifies
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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paperwork is red tape and a journalist works on a paper.
One day I aspire to having a signature.
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Is the correct answer, but well over the 3 hours.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Well I do have a job to do as well
One day I aspire to having a signature.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
After a week of absence, here we go again!
Because you are blue, my father sees red, and because I am red, I am feeling blue.
Which movie?
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Avatar II : My big fat Pandora versus the deathly hallows striking back at Muriel's lethal weapon : Reloaded
Movie trailer
Another epic movie quote : "I see blue people!"
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Easy: Soldier Blue[^] - A classic!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Tellitubbies
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I wouldn't admit knowledge to them if I were you. It's gonna diminish the image we've got of you as a normal, rationally thinking person...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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I have an image
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Not anymore you don't
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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I'm going to sit in the corner and learn VB.NET now
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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LOL
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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The woman inside the red tellitubby is filthy (in the good way).
When you know that it makes watching the program a very conflicting experience.
Like watching King of the Hill having watched the woman who plays Bobby Hill in Californication, or knowing Mila Kunis is Meg Griffin.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Halo: Combat Evolved
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The Smurfs!
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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I'm pretty sure it wasn't Three Colours: White[^].
Must have been in one of the other parts of the trilogy.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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