Spite? What is ...spite, anway?
Mood:
incredulous
Topic: Science and Health
Keith Jensen of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and his colleagues conducted a pair of studies that looked at whether chimpanzees believed in fairness - the idea that all should share the same advantages and disadvantages ..
http://www.livescience.com/animals/070716_spite_chimps.html
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But anyway I had just hung up the phone with a loved one from my old hometown.
She, apparently, was in charge of an Estate, a Last Will and Testament from a relative who has passed away from lung cancer since over two years ago.
An thoroughly annoyed looking lady had looked at me somewhat irritatingly and needled me for a reply as to how long I would take on the phone. I held up the sign for peace (or victory) knowing she would stupidly think this means two minutes. Anyway, anyone frowning at me and smoking a cigarette and getting antsy about my use of a public phone thinking I might kowtow to such a response has something else coming.
But the bus shows up, she leaves her half smoking butt on the sidewalk and she hops on the bus.
I hang up a few minutes later. The bus stop seems awash in second hand smoke and smokers. I pick off some relatively young guy who looks like he might need some health care debate in his life. WOuld he be willing to chat about his right to smoke impedes upon my right and the rights of others for unadulterated air?
If it was just me I could have just sauntered away. But there are loads of retirees here. And small children visiting grandparents too. I zeroed in on his profound ignorance. Assaulted him with my logic ...wondering aloud how anyone could put up with insolent attitudes like his. He was probably about 3o years young.
But I felt like I was also speaking for the little elderly lady five feet away, waiting for the bus, possibly contemplating the autumn of her years, and how precious life really is.
I left him alone though after a few more cross words. I left him talking to an 911 operator. I glanced back at him a few yards away.......white as a ghost.
Will he honestly think after a while that that was somebodys mother on that bench ? Who knows.
I never felt better though. Only more bitter.
In a constitutional battle of wills, the right to have clean pure air as a significant, no-,...neccesary part of a persons right to have happinesss and security as a person. Free from another persons second hand smoke vicariously "assualting" another persons health as a byproduct............with rising health care costs, more people realizing the ill health effects........the right to pollute, granted by a right to smoke and endanger the health of others around you
...must not supercede or impede on a persons right to clean air.
This is why I have invented the Good Neighbor Act...and with enough votes in Congress...and youre help and youre support
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Joking aside, cancer, lung and heart disease are serious issues. Dont smoke the constitution near me thank you very much.
Posted by mach1231
at 2:54 PM PDT
Updated: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:03 PM PDT
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