EM launch

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Thread: EM launch

# 20945 byBrian Dunbar on Dec. 5, 2005, 9:41 a.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

>
> Each one of you who is reading this is saying to themselves that I am
> not talking about you. Wrong! So I will give an obvious example. Each
> year the cost to our society due to alcohol consumption is enormous:
> broken families, ruined lives, missed opportunities, crime, highway
> fatalities, infrastructure costs, etc. Since alcohol is a problem, why
> are we supporting the consumption of it by partaking of it ourselves. If
> we were truly mature, each of us would forever forsake any substance
> that the weakest of our fellowmen cannot handle. Our concern would be
> for the betterment of all mankind instead of our own pleasure.

Your aim is pure but range is short and your logic is (I think) wonky.
Alcohol (substitute the poison of your choice) is not a problem, the
abuse of it is.

Brian Dunbar
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