Sunday, April 10, 2005

Personal Responsibility

[Recycled from 16 July 2004]

Let's see if I have this straight:
 
If you become addicted to tobacco as a teenager and are unable to quit later on, all of the diseases that make you miserable and eventually kill you are your own personal responsibility
 
If you learn in the 1950s that tobacco is a killer, but spend billions of dollars on ad campaigns intended to ridicule and obfuscate the truth, not only do you bear no personal responsibility, but it's unfair to your poor widdle corporation to demand a few pennies to put a band-aid on the damage you have done.

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