The Disappearance of the Ashtray

Re:The Disappearance of the Ashtray by porkbeer on Monday January 23, 2023 @09:17PM (#34498240)

Can we chill on the hate? Be impassioned, sure. But this 'people like you deserve' is not welcome. You arent going to convince a smoker tgeyre wrong by being a shining example of the prototypical asshole non smoker

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Re:The Disappearance of the Ashtray by vuln on Monday January 23, 2023 @10:24PM (#34498753)

Hate is what these people love, it elevates their virtue and allows them to look down upon anyone they disagree with.

Just look at the people who questioned the vaccine. Hordes were calling for those people to be locked up, jailed, isolated from the population, denied medical care, denied basic access to needs (like grocery shopping) and even fired from their job.

These people have absolutely no regard for _anyone_ that disagrees with them. It's very sad.

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Re:The Disappearance of the Ashtray by midoridensha on Monday January 23, 2023 @11:18PM (#34499182)

I see no reason to be polite to someone who complains he can't force other people to breathe his cancerous emissions any more.

Making these people pariahs and social outcasts is one of the big things that reduced smoking so much in North America, and thereby saved a lot of people from the health effects of secondhand smoke from these selfish assholes.

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Re:The Disappearance of the Ashtray by gymbeaux on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:25AM (#34499724)

Mods will probably remove your comments but I agree with everything you said.

I think the real issue here is this topic being discussed on HackerNews of all places.

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