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Personal responsibility, the "Why can't I do what I want if I don't harm anyone" argument was never a thing. The personal responsibility argument is all about doing something destructive, self-destructive or foolish. No one ever deployed the personal responsibility argument in favor of doing something positive. No one ever said "Why can't I cure cancer as long as I don't harm anyone. This asymmetry ought to be the first clue that the argument is fallacious.
The personal responsibility argument is all about defining "harm" narrowly to avoid inconvenient costs. The smoker who says he isn't hurting anyone doesn't count the harm to himself, doesn't consider the negative health effects of his smoke-cloud, doesn't think of his dependents left alone when he dies.
If you think human beings are lonely apex predators, like lions, then it's understandable why you'd want to leave the weakest lions to choke to death on their smoke. But many people regard genus homo as a social animal. We are, by this definition, our brothers' keepers. Society has an interest in helping a smoker to quit for the same reason they would stop a depressed person from killing themselves or stop a drug addict from shooting up. We're just better when we don't throw lives away. Plus there are those externalized costs of smoking (or suicide, or drug use) which is why we are better when lives are preserved.
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I have to say I thought todays answer was six letters - anyone agree ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It looks odd, but it's right at 5.
You can use 6, but frankly that looks even odder!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Depends if you drink whisky or whiskey.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Not English speakers.
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Same... Wasn't even sure it was a real word when I tried it.
Jeremy Falcon
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Easy one for a Monday
Support loser ? (6)
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I think you are up tomorrow - I still got nothing!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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As I set one yesterday ( Devon cider ) will tomorrow count as my third strike ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nah, that one doesn't count!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Peanuts: Has it ever occurred to you that you might be wrong?
No, never.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Write a book about it
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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I once thought I was wrong, then realised I'd made a mistake.
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Sounds more like Dogbert.
modified 14-Aug-23 19:17pm.
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Nothing starts with N and ends in G.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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#Worldle #569 1/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Wordle 786 3/6
⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟨
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Wordle 786 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
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🟩🟩🟩⬜🟨
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Wordle 786 5/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
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🟩🟨⬜⬜🟩
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Wordle 786 3/6*
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟨🟨⬜🟩
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 786 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 786 4/6
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
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Wordle 786 4/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
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🟩🟨⬜⬜🟩
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Phil
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