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There's inherent and supported shaming associated with being a smoker, a drunk, a drug addict. Why not being obese? You have to make a choice every day to be obese.
It's ok to insult smokers because "the collective" decided it was ok.
If they'd had their weapons they could have simply backed each other down calmly.
That is the genius of the second amendment. When everybody has got one in the pipe, folks are not going to get into this sort of ugly "shaming" behavior or engage in retaliatory head punching or crowbar threatening.
Go check out the "NJ bans smoking in cars with kids" thread...over there, smokers are barely better than cockroaches the way some of them are talking.
I'm not going to dispute that there are a lot of rude a-holes in this world (which is unfortunate for their chosen victims). But their numbers doesn't make their behavior right, merely common (in both senses of the word).
If they'd had their weapons they could have simply backed each other down calmly.
That is the genius of the second amendment. When everybody has got one in the pipe, folks are not going to get into this sort of ugly "shaming" behavior or engage in retaliatory head punching or crowbar threatening.
Oh yes they will. Owning a lethal weapon doesn't automatically bestow common sense on someone. It just makes their idiocy more lethal when they engage in it - which, being idiots, they will inevitably do.
If they'd had their weapons they could have simply backed each other down calmly.
That is the genius of the second amendment. When everybody has got one in the pipe, folks are not going to get into this sort of ugly "shaming" behavior or engage in retaliatory head punching or crowbar threatening.
Maybe we should bring back dueling. Then you can say whatever you wish to anyone you wish. I think people would be nicer if they knew their words could get them killed.
I'm not going to dispute that there are a lot of rude a-holes in this world (which is unfortunate for their chosen victims). But their numbers doesn't make their behavior right, merely common (in both sense of the word).
No, but my point was that it is still seen as okay to shame smokers, but somehow people get much more offended when it's overweight people getting shamed than other groups, not sure why. I do not think personally anyone should be shamed about anything, especially because it just doesn't work in the slightest to change people's behavior...but so many here are so gleeful at the man getting attacked for it, that;s what I don't get. Should he have done it? No.
But you guys, as adults, do you actually go around with this attitude, that you'll punch out a stranger who insults you or offends you? I don't know many adults who act like this, that's all.
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