Originally posted by chocalate_topaz
Just because privacy is increasingly being invaded doesn't mean that it is right or that we have to sit by and allow it.:idea:
That's true, but the problem with that is things in America now are selective, like smoking for example. Sooner or later somebody will go after other things like alcohol and drug tests. Sooner or later there will be a "grassroots" group that will use the death of a kid on a college campus to push for a mandate to start drug testing and/or banning college drinking at games, so on and so forth. If you gonna stop one, why not stop em all, including smoking, and put the responsibility back on the individual instead of always trying to write laws to make the world perfect for everybody by instituting all these regulations?
Not to take that too far. Where I work, I have no problem with drug testing because we deal with extremely dangerous technology that could be lethal if someone is impared or depressed or in a bad mood and wanna do something stupid,,, but all the stuff like piling on smokers,,, i mean,, give me a break. (not a smoker by the way.) but if you gonna use all these rules to bash a particular group, one day it will spread.
And generally,,, if we are going to have this "holier than though" attitude about smoking as a society, why not apply it across the board???
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Yes, it has long been known that vices may or may not affect the performance of humans. General Grant of the Union Army in the civil war was basically a drunk by modern day standards, yet he was the only general that could trade blows with and finally defeat Rober E. Lee,,, not to mention all the rif-raff in WWII.
