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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
total strawman. murder and fraud can't even come close to the comparison of making smoking in the establishment illegal.
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His following examples are the important ones, as I hinted at above.
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using this argument, public health and safety, you'd better be hiring 5 million more cops and outlawing every single thing that's dangerous, including toothpicks.
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Slippery slope much?
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i'm actually getting real sick and tired of advocating every regulation for public health and safety. It's just another progressive method of controlling the populace. It's absolute insanity to push for this kind of totalitarianism.
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Okay, slippery cliff.
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