So me trying to explain my opinion is socialism? Also Ad Hominem habitus has been strong against me in this thread already. I like to dye my hair to every colour in the rainbow and get different types of bodymods, suddenly that makes me a "smurf look-alike" or "stubborn individualist"? I don't get why attack me personally when you could just counterargue my points. My opinion is most likely a "culture shock" which in term makes me look like a socialist to you, so I won't bother arguing against you guys anymore. You have your own ways of living, and I have mine.
Precisely, this is a thing we can both agree on.
Okay, I do submit that I've been in the wrong, but I count it to as being "culture shock", as vaping indoors in a place where smoking is not allowed would be pretty disasterous, and possibly get you fined around here.
I do see both sides of the whole argument, and understand both sides, but labeling me as a socialist based on my looks and profile pic is labeling at its worst in my opinion.
I do see me being harsh on some arguments of mine, and I do apologize for that. But attacking someone personally based on the text they are writing and their profile picture is a big no-no in my books.
I apologize to you guys personally, and to everyone other I've insulted through my arguments. I see how things go all over the world, and everyone is their own lord, so I don't really have any say in that and I do understand that. I've been quite stressed out lately, so I might have not been the best arguer out there to-date.
I hope we all can just be relaxed about this whole thing that went on, and I still feel rather bad about some of my comments. Let's just say both sides of this whole "argument war" could've been more friendly to eachother.
Peace, and vape on
-Lova
Don't go anywhere... many did counter your arguments, in great detail.
No apologies necessary from anyone. Look, you're fine, I carry no grudges, and I doubt anyone here does. But understand, when you live with "commune-like" or socialist upbringing you argue as you have, "for the betterment of the group," against smokers and vapers, vaping outside of defined smoking areas. Vapers are not smokers and they do not want to labeled as such. Your arguments hit many as ANTZ related b/c you give them concepts and ideas they can use against us.
The facts are in, and vaping is not smoking, and is relatively harmless to smoking. B/c I do not work in the development of argumentation for vaping, there will be little offered here. This is a site for vapers, where we coalesce to talk about vaping trends, not to argue against those who want to shut us down.
If you are interested in arguing with MD's, DR's and scientists that protect vaping, go to my Twitter account, @GeneticSequence, subscribe to my Twitter list "Vape" and have at it. They will eat you alive. It's all they do all day...and they will chop you down like wheat chaff being steamrolled by a tank.
Also, the US isn't based on group think. It is libertarian based..."rugged individualism," especially where it is defined, in the US Constitution, and throughout the US, EXCEPT for the inner cities. The inner cities in the US is where socialism in the US has taken hold(Obama's territory).
You would know how the military works. People in the military get stripes, bars and stars based on what they do, what they've earned, and how long they have been in. Strangely colored hair in the US is a "dog whistle" for "not having been around long enough to matter," and I'm willing to bet you're overlooking how you are perceived outside of your peer group. In the US, you cannot enlist in the military with tattoos in most cases, "body mods" or anything like it, and I would think Finland is the same.
Nobody wants any issues with vaping, but the City, County, State and Federal Govts are shutting it down here, and only due to the libertarian mindset in the US is it going to survive. Rugged individuals who take on Govt, start and maintain the black markets. For 2016, that is where we in the US are headed, unless a miracle happens.