Stupidity
I was thinking stuff, as is my want from time to time, and came up with this little quandary.
Smoking. Everyone knows it’s bad for you. It’s bad for your health, causes various diseases and is likely to end your life before your true time is due. Smokers know this as well but they turn their heads away and continue to live their lives in the manner to which they have become accustomed, ignoring the obvious consequences of doing this. Stupid aren’t they?
But here comes the rub.
Living life the way we ALL do. Everyone knows it’s bad for the planet. We ALL know about global warming. We ALL know that in the not too distant future, and I do mean not too distant, the planet is going to turn around and kick back by destroying the human race, or at least most of it. We ALL know this but we turn our heads away and continue to live our lives in the manner to which we have become accustomed, ignoring the obvious consequences of doing this. Stupid aren’t we?
My quandary is; who is the more stupid? Smokers or everybody else?
Is there actually an answer to this question?
I only think about this stuff. I don’t usually get to solve it but think of it this way.
Smokers are only being stupid to themselves.
Everyone else is being stupid to the planet.
It’s funny that everyone else picks on smokers. I think it is time that smokers started to pick on everyone else. I think they have a better case. :binkybaby:
Maybe the answer lies within the problem itself? Remember this? “it takes one to know one”. In essence the reflection upon the “sottish” behavior of humanity is more or less a reflection upon myself, so reality maybe I need to become the change I want to see in the world first… just a thought. :wink:
I think the biggest difference is that there are less social dilemmas in choosing to smoke. You smoke, you harm yourself. If however, you choose to drive … you drive, then depending on what everyone else does, the world suffers or it doesn’t. If you feel like no one else is going to change, you don’t feel like there is much point in you changing. There is also a lot of cognitive dissonance swirling round our head. There is so many facets of the problem and to come to terms with how much damage we are doing is too much. We can’t change our whole belief system as well as our behaviour all at once, so we don’t change anything because otherwise our behaviour will be inconsistent with our beliefs. Despite all this I am still of the belief that people will change and things will get better :)
Well, I’m sure you never had a chemotherapy or any other kind of cancer treatment.
Dying sounds hard, but living with and fighting cancer is a lot harder. Don’t play with your oh-so-sheltered life. Comparing one stupidity with another really makes me angry.
Thanks for dropping by he1ix but I think you missed the point. I am well aware of the damage caused by smoking and I don’t lead a sheltered life even if I haven’t required chemotherapy. My point is that the damage caused by smoking is to a relatively small number of people compared to those damaged by air pollutants from vehicle exhausts along with the damage those pollutants cause to the planet. On top of that there is all the rubbish we insist on burying and all the food we insist on wasting. I could go on but I won’t.
In this country, as well as many others, we seem willing to spend millions of pounds on trying to stop people smoking, which is fine as far as it goes, but where are the millions that should be spent on trying to stop people doing all the other stuff, which in terms of the human population is far more damaging?
I think we got our priorities mixed up somewhere and the stupidity of it exists whether you like it or not.
Been here?
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/
It may change the way you think. Careful. . .
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Okay,
Father Luke
Now there’s a novelty. Never seen those before. Very interesting indeed.