Pollution, Hate, and Stupidity!!

[Lobo27]

[geretogo]

1. I hope he is trying to commit suicide . This planet would be better off with these morons gone .

[closeupready]

2. I also think there's an age factor here - I've known several people with cancer -

lung, likely precipitated by cigarette smoking - and it's not something you forget. Once they get sick, boom, they are gone within months. One of the most horrible and cruel ways to die - one day you're smoking away, all kinds of plans for the future ... and then, the next day, you lose weight rapidly, get bedridden within weeks, and a few months later, you die. No time to retire, no time to travel, no energy to play ball with your kids.

When I was in my 20's, I hadn't known enough people for long enough (outside family). But as I've said before, everyone wants to make their own mistakes, not learn from others who already made them. Signed, former 3 pack/day smoker.

[CarrieLynne]

3. how is that not assault?

I consider that equal to having unprotected sex with someone without telling them you have HIV....

[KansDem]

7. It is assault...

...and subject to an SYG response, as far as I'm concerned.

[yuiyoshida]

16. Ya know that's just gotta happen

and we will be reading about it on DU. You can bet on it.

[navarth]

4. I'm not saying we should slash their tires

I'm not saying it.

[SunSeeker]

5. The stupid, it burns. Literally. nt

[PADemD]

6. So, if they do this to someone who has severe asthma

and that person has an attack and dies, would they be charged with manslaughter?

[KansDem]

9. Why not murder?

man·slaugh·ter (mnslôtr)
n.
The unlawful killing of one human by another without express or implied intent to do injury.

If you blow toxic exhaust into someone's face and that causes death, you should be charged with murder. I don't see how you could argue that you did so without express or implied intent to do injury.

F*ck these goons! This isn't some children's game gone wrong. It's assault!

(PS--I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me if you spray a toxic material into someone's face, you're looking to harm that person).

[UCmeNdc]

8. You cannot win with idiots like these......

It is impossible to reason with a person that has no education and ability to understand the problem. These people are beyond hope.

[L0oniX]

11. That's why Discussionist is failing.

[Turbineguy]

10. At my school we have a conservative (well, teabagger really)

who rides a bicycle! He got smoked out by one of those idiots who must have mistaken him for a Obama-voting-weenie. He was wondering how somebody (one of his brethren no less) could do such a thing. He said it hurt his lungs. I told him that was just the exhaust products reacting with the moisture in his lungs to form acids.

[L0oniX]

12. They should route the exhaust into the cab and vent out the windows...

...or not ventilate!

[vicman]

13. This is almost beyond belief

When contempt for other human beings extends to yourself, your life isn't worth much. Sad, I guess...

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/pollution/diesel-exhaust

[The Wizard]

14. Strutting your ignorance is just so

Republican.