I have no problem with you wanting to die.
My problem is never the adult who makes the conscious decision to ignor what he knows to be true. Cigarette = lung cancer, fat = heart disease, porno = broken penis.
My problem is the children who have to suffer for the mistakes of their parents and a society who doesn\'t believe it should be held accountable for anything.
I did a quick search of the web to find SIDS + Cigarette and I didn\'t find any hard numbers. What I did find was tens, if not hundreds, of sites that say there is an obvious connection between children who succumb to SIDS and parents who are smokers. Did the child chose to smoke? No.
On the subject of fat. If you have a child you know that anything they see on TV they want. Especially if they see an older child using/eating it. And if it happens to taste good, all the better... for the product people. Advertizing is subversive and they target the young, impressionable minds.
My daughter thinks there is nothing better in the world than going to McDonalds, eating chicken nuggets, and playing on the playground. And I have to admit, after a long day at work it is easy. It is a struggle to get her to eat AT ALL. When I have commercials beating her down with all the things \"she likes,\" it\'s hard for me to convincer to try anything new.
She has never had Cocoa Puff, but she is sure they are the best cereal around. So I think the products: fast food restaurants, fatty food makers, etc, do bear some responsibility here. They are not solely responsible, but there is a certain amount of accountability I wish people would take.
barkel
ps. Here is where I dive right off the deep end. I am not about to believe in the Illuminati, or 12 foot lizards, or anything like that, but there is just about enough crap in the world: drugs, nicotene, porn, caffine, alcohol, fat/addictive foods; to make me think that there really are people at the top. And they keep us in line, and out of the way, by distracting us with these petty, destructive things. Things that do not advance us or our families, and in most cases, set us back.
I am addicted to at least two of the things on that list. I go for a time without and then I fall, head long into a week or a month of gorgeing myself. When I come to my senses I am embarrassed and that much poorer. I have accomplished nothing creative or fruitful.
These things to which we are addicted are more than just physically destructive. If you look at how you feel about these things and think about them in terms of control, you might be surprised to find that they are in charge and not you. When I first thought about this crap as someone elses way of preventing me from my ultimate goal of happiness I was disgusted.
These things are an addiction, and make no mistake, the CEOs of McDonalds, Phillip Morris, Nabisco, etc, don\'t give one fat sh*t about your health. They care about money.
