The Toronto Star readership is mostly insane
More Toronto Star-related insanity was in evidence today, as the online readership sat in judgement of my comment that, if tobacco was to be banned indoors in private apartment and condominium buildings, then marijuana should also be banned indoors. As shown below, everyone who reacted to my comment disagreed:
posted by mattbg @ 6:17 PM
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Does this really surprise you?
--Chuck
Actually, yes! I didn't think things had devolved that much.
What, you mean in our attitudes towards drugs or the readership of The Star?
Readership of the Star's attitude toward drugs. I thought there would have been some hesitation left. The comments seemed pretty heavily AGAINST banning smoking in private places... but if smoking was to be banned in private places, it would not be OK to also ban marijuana smoking?
It's a small sample size (5 disagrees) and and not properly controlled.
Most people don't think things through. They like to have very narrowly compartmentalize things - smoking tobacco indoors: bad; smoking marijuana indoors: well, it's not tobacco, there are no strong campaigns against getting people to quit, therefore it must be ok.
Thanks for the comments, Richard. I know it's a small sample, unscientific and relatively meaningless (it's only the Toronto Star readership, after all!)... but, I'm just surprised at the abject rejection.
With respect to Africa, I completely agree. One of the strangest things about our involvement there is that we try to overlay a system of government that looks like ours on top of their society and get pleased with ourselves for having done it. But the society still operates as it did before, regardless of how we dress it up. So the people we put "at the top" now simply have more capacity to benefit their tribe than they did before. We weren't serious about democracy, anyway... we just wanted the resources and someone to keep things stable!
("Africa" is obviously a broad word... I am thinking more of countries like Nigeria and Zimbabwe).
When I used the term Africa, I really meant it in its broader sense (did I just create that broader sense?) of any non-Western nation that would "benefit" from being just like us.
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