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Re: Smokers are smarter, I say.

From Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, sci.physics, alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.cellular-phone-tech
Subject Re: Smokers are smarter, I say.
Date 2017-04-25 16:37 -0700
Message-ID <D5252BC8.A1D1D%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
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On 4/25/17, 4:19 PM, in article op.yy9xp7apjs98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson
Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:

...
>>>>> That there's a problem using carbon at all.
>>>>> 
>>>> So you use denial of the problem to push socializing of the costs.
>>> 
>>> I don't want to push any costs, as there are none.
>> 
>> As I said, you use denial to push socialism.
> 
> No, I'm a capitalist.  When did I suggest I was a socialist?

Your push to socialize the costs of carbon, which you do through denying
there even are such costs contrary to all evidence. It is perhaps the
largest socialist programs in history.

>> Part of that plan is to push the denial. Or maybe you are just following
>> those who do so and really believe the denial. Same result.
> 
> I'm just not stupid enough to believe the hype.  I see no evidence we're
> changing the climate anything like what happens naturally anyway.  And even if
> we did, so what?  It could just as easily get better as worse.

See: denial of the issue which leads to socializing the costs. That is what
I am in reference to.

>>>> I disagree with doing so but realize I will not change your mind, nor will
>>>> you change mine.
>>>> 
>>> Agreed, it's like me trying to persuade a Muslim Allah doesn't exist.  I
>>> know he's an idiot, but he will always remain so.
>>> 
>> Why point to Muslims and not Christians with your example?
> 
> Because Muslims take religion more seriously.

Some do. Some do not. Some Christians and Jews do. Some do not.

> They're all crazy, but most Christians don't bother with god that much.  I
> know plenty Christian folk that believe in god, but they never bother praying
> or going to church.

Same with Muslims.


-- 
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot
use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow
superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

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Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-25 18:11 +0100
  Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 11:28 -0700
    Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-25 20:14 +0100
      Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 12:46 -0700
        Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-25 21:38 +0100
          Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 13:51 -0700
          Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 18:00 -0400
            Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 15:19 -0700
        Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-25 21:42 +0100
          Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 13:53 -0700
            Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-25 22:31 +0100
              Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 14:37 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-25 23:31 +0100
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 15:39 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-26 00:19 +0100
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 16:37 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-04-25 22:14 -0500
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 21:33 -0700
    Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-04-25 18:39 -0500
      Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 16:49 -0700

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