[TheForge] Roger Duncan

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Andy Vida wrote:

>	My paternal->maternal great grandfather smoked 100 cigarettes
>	a day, ate a diet that would have any randomly chosen doctor
>	in apoplexy, and drank quite bravely, as I understand.  He
>	died at 99.
>
>	Ewell Gibbons, Mr. Grapenuts himself, croaked off in his 50s
>	after a life of nuts and twigs.
>
>	When youre nickel's up, it's up, so my recommendation is go
>	out and have a good time.
>
>  
>
I have seen the same phenomenon with my fathers family.  Fifteen 
siblings, with a couple dying of cancer in their 40's the rest all 
living into their nineties.  I think the advantage some of these people 
had was growing up in the country and having their lungs develop without 
being bombarded from birth with toxins, so they had better organs to 
start with.  I.E it worked for them but isn't likely to work for you. 

>>Are we adults enough to make our own choices and live (and die) with the
>>consequences? We darn well should be!
>>    
>>
>
>	Tell that to the do-gooder squeams.  Better yet, slap some
>	sense into them
>
The problem is we are not a nation of adults, we are a nation of 
adolocents who make big talk about how we are capable of running our 
lives, but when put to the test repeatedly look for someone to blame and 
make it all right for us.  Eat yourself into a spot where you can't get 
out of bed, you are disabled and collect money, while you wait for your 
lawsuit against McDonalds to pay off.  Smoke yourself to death and then 
sue the tobacco companies.   If your insurance company wants to raise 
the rates on you because of your hobbies, or vises, its a violation of 
your privacy.     Stand in line at the local hardware store and listen 
to people bitch about outsourcing and jobs going over seas while the 
cashier rings up their collection of chinese tools that they picked 
instead of the "over priced" American ones.  Of course we want everyone 
else to buy american, just not us.   And these are people that make 
three, four and five times the national average, and think they are 
being put upon.   So we are not a nation of adults, we are a nation of 
adolescents.

Charles