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Berzerker
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topeka, kansas,USA
May 1999
time: 23:32
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Getting stoned...
Or in the bathroom...
Or making dinner...
Or taking a nap...
Or teaching my own kids how to swim and avoid drowning...
Or wondering why I'm taking care of their kid when I have better things to do.
In case you're wondering, Freevibe.com, undoubtedly with money stolen from us (yeah yeah, it's legal), runs an ad on TV showing a little kid approaching a swimming pool obviously unsupervised and telling those who should be supervising the kid to "just tell her parents you were getting stoned" with the obvious implication the kid drowned and you weren't there to
prevent it because you were getting stoned...
Hey, if the parents don't mind me getting stoned in front of their daughter, I'll watch her too...  Or I can do a fair job of getting stoned and keep an eye on her without her knowledge... There are plenty of options... Why don't these people run ads about kids that drown because the adults were drunk or answering the phone or...fill in the blank...?
What did Thomas Jefferson say about compelling people to fund beliefs they don't agree with? Oh yeah, it's tyranny... So these people are using government to fund their attempt to portray pot smokers as irresponsible so we have yet another excuse to jail them? I disagree, stop ripping me off to pay for your slander you ******* parasites!!!
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Berzerker
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topeka, kansas,USA
May 1999
time: 23:32
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It's called information about possible consequences of using dope. |
So these people would produce an ad and keep it running week after week on Monday Night Football if a pot smoker saved a kid from drowning? Hey, saving a life is a possible consequence of getting stoned!
Tell us, Mr Fun, how many times have children drowned in pools "because" the adult supervisor was off getting stoned? One in 10 million? One in 100 million? One in a billion? Where are the actual stats showing just how "possible" this consequence is?
How many kids have been electrocuted because people don't have socket protectors? How many kids have been killed or seriously injured because of trampolines, unguarded stairwells, bicycles, sports, blah blah blah? We don't see ads accusing parents of being irresponsible for all the ways a kid can get killed or hurt.
Hey, just tell her parents you were watching this TV ad...
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Berzerker
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topeka, kansas,USA
May 1999
time: 23:32
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John T - quote:
You're just pissed cause the ad is so damned effective. |
I don't like slander. Nor do I even smoke pot, but yes, the ad is effective, demagoguery usually is. But I resent being taxed to pay for this immorality... If you like it so much, fund it yourself...
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My wife and I saw it and we both shut up for a minute. I finally broke the silence and said, "You know that child moves exactly like Sophie." Yeah, it was an emotional appeal and it hit the people who matters: voters. |
Right, it is an emotional attempt to tell voters they are justified when putting millions of people in jail for using pot but we don't see ads like this accusing alcohol users of irresponsibilty nor do we see ads indicting the character of every parent who loses a child because they were off doing something like cooking dinner while their kid gets into trouble. It's bad enough for a parent to lose a child because they weren't supervising their kid 24/7 without these a@@holes rubbing their noses in it (and you talk about mocking people?). The hypocrisy will be lost on far too many voters as it is lost on you. Of course, you got a thread about drugs deleted while jumping into a thread "promoting" alcohol use, so your outrage is selective.
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I find it bizarre that even when people opposed to drug use become drug addicts, you deny that drugs can cause one harm and even go so far as to mocking those whose lives have been negatively impacted by them. |
Where did I ever say drugs cannot cause anyone harm? Just about everything in life can harm someone. Where have I ever mocked anyone for having a drug problem? I await the quotes or retraction...
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"Bizarre" barely covers it, but it's the best I can do. Perhaps "distasteful" is a better word. |
As distasteful as false accusations and slander? You engage in one and applaud the other.
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People killed in 2001 because of illicit drug use: 21,683 |
How many children drowned in pools because the supervising adults were off getting stoned? You couldn't find a stat for that one? Tis is a simple question that needs answering by these people at Freevibe, but they conspicuously failed to provide any statistics to support their ad. As for citing the number of deaths from illicit drugs, why do you point to a result of the drug war as support of your position? How many of these people died because of adulterated drugs? How many died because of poor quality control? How many people died last year because of alcohol? Tobacco? Aspirin? Diabetes induced by poor nutrition? How many children have died because of the gang warfare over marketshare in illegal drugs?
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How many kids have been electrocuted because people don't have socket protectors? Couldn't find within my self-imposed time limit (2:00am), however the number is likely very close to 0 as I couldn't find anything at all after 10 minutes of searching (and I'm pretty good at this). |
Which is probably a good estimate of the number of children who drowned because the supervising adult was off getting stoned.
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How many kids have been killed or seriously injured because of trampolines: 0 in 2001. Neither the US Product Safety Commission's queryable database nor the National Fire Safety Association (which has obviously branched out into a general "Safety" Association to look at their website) list any fatality statistics for trampolines. |
No serious injuries? You mentioned only fatalities and that was not what I asked.
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sports: Didn't have time to look up, but generally kids of the age in the commercial aren't playing sports. So I again would hazard a guess of "very few to none." |
Obviously I wasn't limiting my question to 2 or 3 year olds.
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Uh, oh, haven't seen you reply to my post yet. I hope this means you aren't writing another of your parsing jobs filled with snide remarks towards my character, accusing me of ignoring "logic" for "emotion", yadda, yadda. We'll see... |
Ah, the hypocrite speaketh about snide remarks after accusing me of saying things I've never said. Are you going to whine to the mods to get this thread deleted too? Btw, so now you don't like "parsing" after saying you found it easier to follow debates because of the way I post? Oh, and learn what the word means, you're not the first person to mis-use the word...
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Ramo
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Austin, Texas, USA
Oct 1999
time: 23:32
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People killed in 2001 because of illicit drug use: 21,683 |
Americans killed last year because of tobacco: ~400,000
Americans killed last year because of alcohol: ~100,000
Out of the ~22,000 killed because of illicit drug use, the number killed because of weed: No doubt relatively small
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