"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:15:09 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
. ..
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:50:49 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"JimH" wrote in message
. ..

"Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute" wrote in
message
...
In message ups.com,
Tim
sprach forth the following:

Your tax dollars at work!

Who cares if someone is hurting themselves?

Because drug use often results in crimes on others to obtain money to
support the habit, especially with hard drugs like cocaine.

Quiz time, Jim. Think about violence related to the manufacture,
transport
and sale of alcoholic beverages. When is the last time you heard of that
kind of violence SPECIFICALLY related to booze?

I'd say that the high incidence of drunk driving accidents and
associated mayhem and deaths, in addition to the health problems
associated with alcohol are pretty violent, wouldn't you?

Yes, but they have nothing to do with the marketing of purchase of
alcohol.
Unless you're hallucinating, you have not heard of liquor wholesalers
murdering each other to gain market share.

You didn't say anything about marketing distributors - you said
violence related to. Liguour stores are easy targets for robbers,
they certainly cater to alcohol abusers (which, despite academic
denials to the contrary is a big contributor to domestic violence) and
in general serve no further purpose than distributing a drug to the
general populace.

I might also point out that up until recently (say within the past ten
years or so), beer advertising, while not engaged in direct violent
imagery, certainly encouraged drinking to excess.

"The one beer to have when your having more than one" comes to mind
immediately - there are other examples.


1) I shouldn't have implied marketing violence without being more specific
about it.

2) You and I should not continue this branch of the discussion. My intuition
says we're getting too close to something, and I understand completely.

Capisce?