Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-20 (Friday)

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 18:34:24 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 12/22/24 8:35 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 12/21/24 12:40 PM, suzeeq wrote:

On 12/21/2024 10:40 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

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DOOL - "Doug III" goes to Leo Stark to sell the necklace, and Leo
tries to talk him into returning the necklace, but I guess Doug III
has debts to pay off!! Holly discusses Tate, and Sophia, with Maggie.
I wasn't entirely sure, but it sounded like Tate talked Sophia into an
abortion (across state lines?) - and the show was pathetically preachy
on the subject of parental consent, which all normal people are
completely in favor of.

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Yes, but many states where it's legal, still require parental conset
under a certaion age.

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Read that again - I'm saying regular people support parental consent laws.

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This is another area where the Left is laughably inane - they don't
think kids should buy cigarettes or alcohol, and (generally) seem to
support parental consent for tattoos and cosmetic surgery, but think
kids should have abortions and sex change operations without their
parents' consent. It's asinine.

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You're a lunatic. Laws on prohibition of achohol sales were originally
written by conservatives for supposed religious reasons. However,
teenagers are genetically predisposed to STOOPID and don't require
assistance from intoxicating substances.

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Tobacco use -- addictive but not behavior altering -- shouldn't be
prohibited, but again, to the extent that there were early laws
prohibitting tobacco sales and use, they came from conservatives.

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So, you're in favor of selling cigies to minors? Got it.

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You don't get anything at all. Tobacco -- in the form of e-cigarettes
and vaping -- had no age threshold till very recently even in places
already restricting the sale of cigarettes to minors. In my state, they
recently raised the age of majority for tobacco purchase to age 21.
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But no, while cigarettes aren't good for health in general, as they
don't affect personality like alcohol or most other drugs, I wouldn't
have an age threshold to buy them.
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You are such a church lady, Ian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McV2Kl7LmRM

Where the hell did you ever get the idea that the church lady isn't
there to impose behavioral restrictions upon everybody else?

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As usual, I have no idea what point you are trying to make here... [roll]

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The point I am making, which you are willfully oblivious to, is that the
origin of laws imposing restrictions on personal human behavior that
causes no harm to others is the imposition of conservative religious
principles upon individual behavior in civil and sometimes criminal law.

It's why until just the last few years you couldn't buy alcohol
anywhere in the state on Sundays. Now you can buy it on Sunday but
only in the afternoon.