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i'm not offended. i just don't agree. who's gone primal? perhaps you are too easily offended.
its my right to drive down any road i please for as far as i please (for now at least). but when i come to a red light i need to stop for my own safety as well as others. that doesn't restrict my right to travel.
if your going to punish foolish people who smoke around kids then perhaps you should also punish parents who allow their children to eat unhealthy food. or perhaps parents should be forced to move from cities because the air the kids breathe is not healthy. if a child is injured playing a sport perhaps those parents should be punished as well for allowing a child to participate in an unsafe activity. imo most churches teach things that damage a childs mind. lets punish parents who take kids to church. i'm offended by it.
as for offending others being a reason for a restriction of my rights, i say b.s. where would the line be drawn. i'm offended by all the signs you see in front of churches telling me that if i don't believe what they do i'll go to hell. sounds like hate speech to me. sounds like free speech to them. perhaps people who fart in elevators should be fined or jailed? i hate to quote cheney but "we've turned into a nation of whinners".
not to the ones who died fighting for freedom or lost loved ones.
if a government is only concerned with freedom as a tool of propaganda then it needs to be overthrown and power returned to the people. its an old idea that goes back to the founders.
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Parents should be required to see to it that their children have proper nutrition. That's a good point. As to sports, last I checked most parents are required to properly outfit their children with protective equipment, use seat belts when they're in the car, so why not protect them from cancer causing second hand smoke? Why not protect them from having parents who smoke MJ by making MJ smoking legal only around adults?
Sure people have died for freedom. That's what their government has told them. Those people who've died in Iraq haven't died for freedom, unless you mean the freedom of Americans to steal Iraqi oil.