Darrigaaz, I'm afraid I have to agree with TNTAbeliene. This is not a name that's up for a vote that we're deciding right now, in this thread, and that if you don't get your point across to those of us reading this thread, the vaping world will collapse. You're preaching to the choir here man. We understand your reasoning. Problem is, you're doing no good. The name is out there. Go look up the movie "The Tourist" and find out how many people are commenting about Johnny Depp using a PV. I bet you'll find that none of them are. Are you going to go there and preach to them too? The name is there whether you like it or not. It's been done.
An Ita - I don't see how my wheelies or your smoking are basic human rights. Those aren't rights. A right is something that has been granted to you. I was never granted the right to do wheelies, and you weren't granted the right for the other. But they have been deemed unsafe and illegal. Like I said to Dar, whether we like it or not, it has been done. That's what it really boils down to. It's not your right to do something when it's been decided it's against the law. Maybe I should go out and kill people and say "but it's my basic human right!!!" and see what happens? Nah, can't do that. Why? Because I know it's illegal, just like I don't do wheelies or 110 down the interstate
First off, blind obedience to authority is not a desirable trait in anyone except for a slave.
Second, as humans in the united states, we are supposed to be guaranteed the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These were presented, in a rather famous document, as unalienable rights.
Smoking, or inhaling the vapors produced from Anything in the pursuit of happiness, is included there. Secondhand smoke, produced in a shared space, could infringe upon anothers' right to life or their pursuit of happiness, therefore can obviously be regulated against in order to ensure and protect the equal freedom of others.
But when you get right down to it, I have the right to ingest whatever I want to. And no government should be able to punish me for ingesting the drug of my choice: i.e.-nicotine, caffeine, etc.
Speeding or doing wheelies on a public highway are illegal due to a desire to prevent accidents on a public road where others can be hurt or inconvenienced. Going fast and doing wheelies on private property is not illegal.
Killing people is illegal because it infringes on others' rights to life. That is not a complicated concept, really.
Growing a tobacco plant in my backyard, drying it out in the barn, and smoking it on my own property does not in any way hamper another in their right to life, their right to liberty, or in their pursuit of happiness. Therefore it follows that growing and smoking tobacco, in and of itself, should never be a criminal offense.
But it will be someday, because of people who have an attitude that all law is to be blindly obeyed, and that all illegal acts are wrong.
Laws that hamper a person in their pursuit of happiness in order to protect their physical health or moral virtues are unjust and deserve no respect.
p.s.-I don't kill people because that would not be a cool thing to do. Even if it were made legal I would refrain from doing so. I don't enjoy stealing from or hurting people.
