No, Connie...
I am NOT a "hateful" person...
I am just tired of smokers trying to tell everyone just how "considerate" they are...
Truth is that it is terribly inconsiderate to smoke and inject your toxins into the air that other people have to breathe.
It does not matter that "people have been doing it for centuries"...
People have been murdering people for centuries too...doesn't make it okay...
Slavery existed for centuries...I guess the same logic would have made that okay as well...I guess some slaveowners may have considered themselves to be "considerate" slaveowners...
There are certain things we should not be required to "tolerate"...
I do not tolerate murder... or slavery...or rape...or driving intoxicated...or racism...
I would not tolerate an industrial polluter coming into my neighborhood and releasing hazardous waste into my air or my drinking water...
I would not tolerate bullies or hoodlums attacking me...
...and I don't think any of us have to "tolerate" smokers...
It is not a question of "running the world"...It's a question of a basic human right to not allow others to harm us, infect us, poison us...even if they've been "doing it for centuries"...
Basic manners??? To accept your toxic products into our lungs?
Your rights STOP when they infringe on the more sacrosanct rights of others.
Call me a "rabid zealot" if you like...along with the Abolitionists, anti-war advocates...maybe the Partisans who stood up to the "considerate" N*zis...
You have a nasty addiction that clearly clouds your thinking...and has got you rationalizing somehow, that YOU are one of the "good guys" and I am the nut...Unbelievable...
