Okay, Now I will post.
Simply this.
EURO affair - People Smart enough to band together and Face GOVERNMENT in a battle over control.
ECF - People attempting to get other people infighting and battling each other and business owners while Government moves to take control.
I was once told and firmly believe - Keep them fighting among themselves and you have already won the battle.
Picket Popeyes or Support Vaping in America through political action. Your choice.
I don't think the bolded is necessarily true. I think it's more an issue of: vaping is
new. We don't know all that much about it yet. Therefore, perhaps some of us
don't know where we stand yet on certain specifics. And if we don't know, then surely non-vapers don't know either...so we're understanding, and non-intrusive, about that for the time being.
(The rest is not directed at the poster I quoted, but at the "Get off your azz and do something, even if you don't know what it is!" crowd.)
We should scream "fire" and react instead...because other people are doing it? That's the tactic here? Sorry, we're not in the second grade here. Some of us like to think for ourselves and "everybody's doing it and if you don't, we'll finger-point and call names" just doesn't have the intended impact.
Apologies, but I have no desire to be a sheep. I have the desire to learn and to come to my own conclusions...not be "shamed" or frightened ("ZOMG, the gubbmint is trying to take away ALL our rights! Next thing they'll be trying to take away OUR AIR! You must be a DEMOCRAT!") into adopting other people's (often premature) conclusions...or fight the big fight when I don't even properly know yet what that means (do any of us?).
I think it's a lot brighter to really study and debate these issues to come to some real conclusions,
then act calmly, reasonably and intelligently, than to freak out and scream "I have my rights!" when we don't even actually know what that means yet, and prove our big-ol'-badness by blowing clouds of vapor at old men at Denny's. ("And that's because I CAN, Grandpa! What are you gonna do about it, shake that walker at me?")
Being reactive doesn't mean "doing something." It means, "Somebody yelled fire, I'd better start yelling it too!"
We need more time, more education (including self-education, although some of us believe we know it all already about an only years-old practice), more discussion and more really thought-out conclusions...and yes, more discussion amongst ourselves. Because we
don't know it all yet. Period. We only know that we want what we want.
And as with everything in life, there's a bit more to it than "I want what I want."
Sue me for thinking, reasoning and considering before jumping on the torch and pitchfork brigade because darn it, I
want to smoke during my next gynecological exam.
