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Thread: EM launch
# 20945 byBrian Dunbar on Dec. 5, 2005, 9:41 a.m.
Member since 2022-08-22
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> 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.
Alcohol (substitute the poison of your choice) is not a problem, the
abuse of it is.
Brian Dunbar
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