Heimir said:
theultimateend said:
So they are trying the "If you lie enough it'll be come true." thing?
A friend of mine nearly got disowned for smoking weed, his parents thought it was the most dangerous drug you could do. Note they smoke cigarettes.
I mention it only because its much like this, a long standing lie with no statistical support.
Speaking as someone who does neither drugs nor pirating, I support both because they are, as far as data shown me, harmless outside of the social negatives they create.
Not completley harmless, weed will make you an idiot in the long run. But so will alcohol. However Weed causes less conflicts and accidents. The only danger a driver high on weed poses is too himself as him going 10 mp/h on the highway will likely make truckers run him over or shoot him xD. Where as drunk drivers run over people because they're either aggressive and have impared perception and judgement or just the latter.
But to say it's "harmless" is just as much of a lie as saying it's "TEH MOOAAAST DANGERUZZ DRAGGZ EVURRR!"
Everything in Moderation.
Soda will kill you if you pound it away for long enough.
Weed is effectively harmless, presuming you don't take too much of it, but that presumption is made by me about all things.
Water will kill you if you drink a ton and don't pee, for instance
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Eleuthera said:
Good idea, the three warnings we get at the moment never really managed to convince me... but this one will surely do the job...
The idea is not without merit, if you poke someone long enough they'll eventually get pissed off even if they weren't initially.
Their hope is that you poke people enough they'll finally believe the malarky.
Problem is they are just poking people and generally if you peddle bullshit it will backfire on you hard.
Look at pregnancy rates among teens in the US vs. Abstinence education.
Drug use in states with harder drug laws.
If your grandstanding from an ideology instead of from a position of education the end result is usually the reverse of what you want.
Which then leads to even harsher crackdowns.
Which leads to even worse situations.
Until finally you have entire countries at war over plants and nobody seems to realize how silly it is.
Or in the case of piracy, you have government agencies running around imprisoning people or fining them 100X times the value of the item they copied.
The punishment for ACTUAL theft is in almost all cases smaller than piracy, which is a sign that something extremely moronic is going on.
