[TheForge] OT personal rights was ( RE: OT Threads )

[terry l. ridder]

hello;

comments intermixed below.

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Walter Mullett wrote:

>
> About time....
>
> This is not a personal rights issue.  Living in high  risk areas doesn't
> just affect the person living there.  It also puts the rescuer's lives at
> risk and it costs all of the rest of us.
>

so we should close all the coal mines, oil refineries, etc since they
are high risk and place the rescuers' lives in danger?

we should abandon skyscapers and high rise buildings because they place
rescuers's lives in danger in the event of a natural or man-made
disaster?

we should tell the people of southern california that tough luck you
have brush and wildfires if you want to live there you are on your own?

we should tell the coast guard not to rescue anyone since it is placing
their lives at risk?

>
> It's like smoking.  When you smoke around another person,
> you risk their life and your smoking costs all of us money.
>

oh, please give this a rest. the same people whining about second hand
smoke are probably the same ones driving gas guzzling suvs and do not
care about the families losing their sons and daugthers in the war in
iraq. they just want to whine so their 'ideal' rose-colored world can
exist here on earth.

>
> Walt
>

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terry l. ridder ><>