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drealmer7: It's easy to NOT do something, you just don't do it.
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zeogold: Somehow, I don't think you understand the definition of "addiction".
If it were that easy, thousands of people wouldn't be struggling with it.
Ohmy, you've shown me the light! How could I have been so stupid?! Ummm, no. Realize that I do understand, and that I hold a different point of view and was sharing it and try to see it from my perspective. I've seen it from the other perspective, but I think it's a cop-out to not be fully responsible for one's own actions.

Live deliberately.
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drealmer7: I've seen it from the other perspective, but I think it's a cop-out to not be fully responsible for one's own actions.
It's certainly a good thing to be responsible, just be aware that people with addictions aren't necessarily "weak and lazy" just because they're struggling. It's a serious psychological/biological issue that doesn't just disappear overnight.
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CARRiON.FLOWERS: ...lots of people just get suckered into it, either from social circles or back then, advertisements and general lack of knowledge...
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drealmer7: ...and they don't have the ability to make a conscious choice of "I don't want to do that" and then not do it? Nonsense.

My gradmother was a HARDCORE smoker for 50+ years, had a health issue one day, went to the doctor, he told her if she kept smoking she was going to die soon. She stopped cold turkey and never had another and 25 years later is still alive.

I think people are just lazy and weak and don't want to take responsibility for their own actions and choices.

Oh and if you blew smoke in my face I most certainly would vomit in yours.

People who smoke in houses or cars with children (or animals) should have those children (or animals) taken away from them. They shouldn't be permitted to have anything to do with the well-being of another living thing.
Your biased and certifiable,and you smoke dope.No more explanation is needed.
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drealmer7: Ohmy, you've shown me the light! How could I have been so stupid?! Ummm, no. Realize that I do understand, and that I hold a different point of view and was sharing it and try to see it from my perspective. I've seen it from the other perspective, but I think it's a cop-out to not be fully responsible for one's own actions.
That's the problem, your perspective is ignorant. So no thanks.
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justanoldgamer: Does wiring electric/electronic circuits wrong counts? Cause it that case I'm an occasional smoker.
The blue smoke is just impurities leaving the circuitry.
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drealmer7: It's easy to NOT do something, you just don't do it.
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zeogold: Somehow, I don't think you understand the definition of "addiction".
If it were that easy, thousands of people wouldn't be struggling with it.
You just don't understand, zeogold -- it's just like when you tell someone "Hey! Don't get into an accident!" If they then, at some point, wind up getting into an accident, that means that they're stupid, inferior, defective human beings who deserve what they got. After all, if you don't want to get into an accident, you simply decide not to. Easy. Just like not being an addict!

SPECIAL EDIT (for the irony-challenged): The above reply was (and is) satire. Please do not be alarmed. I am actually quite sane, and everything is OK.
This has been a regularly-scheduled test of Poe's law (still true as ever, BTW). We now return you to your normal programming.
Post edited April 08, 2016 by HunchBluntley
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zeogold: Somehow, I don't think you understand the definition of "addiction".
If it were that easy, thousands of people wouldn't be struggling with it.
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HunchBluntley: You just don't understand, zeogold -- it's just like when you tell someone "Hey! Don't get into an accident!" If they then, at some point, wind up getting into an accident, that means that they're stupid, inferior, defective human beings who deserve what they got. After all, if you don't want to get into an accident, you simply decide not to. Easy. Just like not being an addict!
Your kidding right?If you think that is how it works then you are an IDIOT!
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HunchBluntley: You just don't understand, zeogold -- it's just like when you tell someone "Hey! Don't get into an accident!" If they then, at some point, wind up getting into an accident, that means that they're stupid, inferior, defective human beings who deserve what they got. After all, if you don't want to get into an accident, you simply decide not to. Easy. Just like not being an addict!
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Tauto: Your kidding right?If you think that is how it works then you are an IDIOT!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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Post edited April 08, 2016 by HunchBluntley
Musical Interlude
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sunshinecorp: You mean now that you quit you regained the power of smell and realized how awful your own scent was, right? :)
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tinyE: There was no way I could avoid that joke is there? XD
Well, it was a classic setup...
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Tauto: Your kidding right?If you think that is how it works then you are an IDIOT!
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HunchBluntley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Ok,so I was sucked in.I suppose this will become the norm in this place now whenever a stupid comment is posted.I think that maybe you have started something that will become uncontrollable here and abused and used as an excuse to cover up (posters) stupid comments.