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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
Personally, I don't think it should be the governments job to mandate smoking in vehicles when people like Graham James are sentenced to 2 years in prison for child molestation. I don't think the justification for removing children from "primitive/stupid" Native families in order for the government to assimilate them is any more convincing than removing them for smoking in a car. Would you have supported residential schools as well?
To a large extent we should let people behave stupidly, in the name of freedom, because usually the government DOES NOT KNOW BEST. If you're stupid enough to smoke in car with children you're likely not going to live long anyways.
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What? Those two issues have nothing to do with each other and might be one of the stupidest arguments that I have ever come across but then you somehow topped that with something about residential schools? Graham James should have be sentenced to a longer time in prison - I agree on that, but because he wasn't the government shouldn't be able to enact other laws designed at protecting children from potentially dangerous situations... The provincial government didn't sentence Graham James by the way, nor did they have anything to do with the criminal charges or the trial or the sentencing, in fact the people who designed this legislation have absolutely nothing at all to do with Graham James. Just a stupid argument.
The government doesn't know best all the time, but scientists generally have a pretty good idea and most of them do say that smoking in a car with children present is a bad idea.
And I just read to the end of your post and you somehow topped both stupid arguments - so because someone smokes in their car and isn't going to live long we should allow them to expose their children to potentially fatal chemicals for some unknown reason?