Smoking causes Cancer. (Congress, legal, party, laws)

[edub]

If a doctor tells his patients not to smoke cigarettes and warns them of the dangers of smoking, but he smokes, is his advice wrong?

Anyone with a brain would say "of course not." Well, the same is true when it comes to other things in life. If a minister preaches about the importance of fidelity in marriage but confesses to having cheated on his wife, it doesn't make what he is saying wrong. I could be wrong but I think that is why they say we are all sinners.

Anyway, since this is such an obvious truth, what good does it do to point out the bad conduct of the people you disagree with?

For example. Every protest, Right or Left will have crackpots show up. Most of the time these people aren't even political and don't represent anyone - they just like the attention. So why is it that people post daily about some nut at a tea party rally or about some Congressman with an R in front of his name who got caught with a prostitute?

I'm fairly certain the Congressman knows he isn't supposed to be running around with a prostitute. Now if he made excuses for why it is OK in his case that would make him a hypocrite. But failing to live up to your own standards is something all of us do. Hell, I'd say if you do live up to your own standards they aren't high enough.

So why the food fight all the time?

[Ceece]

There probably wouldn't be so much fighting about this stuff if the people doing the stupid things were not also stumping for laws that infringe upon other peoples rights to do stupid things as well.

I'm pretty sure people know exactly what they are doing, and whether it's wrong, bad, unhealthy, etc. It's when they pretend to have everyone elses best interests at heart that lands them in trouble.

[70Ford]

Originally Posted by edub

If a doctor tells his patients not to smoke cigarettes and warns them of the dangers of smoking, but he smokes, is his advice wrong?

Anyone with a brain would say "of course not." Well, the same is true when it comes to other things in life. If a minister preaches about the importance of fidelity in marriage but confesses to having cheated on his wife, it doesn't make what he is saying wrong. I could be wrong but I think that is why they say we are all sinners.

Anyway, since this is such an obvious truth, what good does it do to point out the bad conduct of the people you disagree with?

For example. Every protest, Right or Left will have crackpots show up. Most of the time these people aren't even political and don't represent anyone - they just like the attention. So why is it that people post daily about some nut at a tea party rally or about some Congressman with an R in front of his name who got caught with a prostitute?

I'm fairly certain the Congressman knows he isn't supposed to be running around with a prostitute. Now if he made excuses for why it is OK in his case that would make him a hypocrite. But failing to live up to your own standards is something all of us do. Hell, I'd say if you do live up to your own standards they aren't high enough.

So why the food fight all the time?

I'm also for legalizing prostitution. People are gonna do it anyway.
A lot of laws are just based on someone eles's moral/religious indignation.