If I had to pick the single biggest contributing factor to human suffering, I would choose human stupidity.[1] Just take the example of smoking. Everybody knows that smoking causes cancers. And yet the uptake of smoking amongst teenagers, especially girls, is on the increase. How stupid is that?! It's the same with binge drinking. It costs a lot of money and we all know how miserable we feel the next day. Nevertheless, many of us, male and female, do it quite regularly, not just as adolescents. And let's not forget those idiots who fry their brains taking illegal drugs.[2]
That kind of stupidity can be found in all aspects of human society. Most people are fully aware that they are virtual slaves of the banks and the tax office. They keep saying that politicians are corrupt, bankers criminals, and journalists liars. Everybody knows, but nobody does anything. They still go voting, replace one criminal with another, pay tax, pay interest, and listen to the news. Dumb, dumber, dumbest!!!
They know that it is impossible for someone with only a few lessons on a Cessna to fly a commercial airliner into a tall building. And still they believe the government's ridiculous claims.[3] They know that if governments imprison scientists who dare questioning the official narrative, that that narrative must be a lie. But yet, they blindly believe even the absurdest stories about the Jewish HolocaustTM [4] .
They know that we are constantly lied to by government and media, and yet they happily parrot their nonsense. As long as they have a job, manage to pay their bills, they really don't care or dare to rock the boat. They just go home, switch on the TV and numb their bad conscience by gulping down a six pack. When talking to their friends and colleagues, all they talk about is food, sex, sport and celebrity gossip. It's almost like they have been lobotomised.[5]
Whenever confronted with the truth, most people will openly admit that there is something wrong with the official story, but then don't dare to further investigate. In fact they will avoid talking to the 'trouble maker', either out of shame about their lack of courage, or for fear of being suspected of harbouring similar beliefs. Selfish, spineless cowards they are!
No wonder, the assaults on our freedoms are getting more and more daring. Our ruling crime families must think they have nothing to fear. If they can get away with 9/11, the man-made global warming hoax and even the Auschwitz lie, they must think they can get away with anything.
Stop whinging about immigration and globalisation, and how it destroys your country's jobs. Set up people's courts and lamp-post those traitors, or at least vote them out of office and boycott their businesses. Anybody who buys a product made in slave-labour countries such as China or the Philippines, or buy from a company that employs illegal immigrants, is as guilty as the business leaders and politicians who made it happen in the first place. The only difference is that they are the pimps and you are one of their whores. And for heaven's sake, stop being silent when you come across their lies. Call them bluff whenever there is an opportunity. If you don't, you only have to blame yourself when things get even worse.
Footnotes :
[1] Some people might argue that it is greed, and they have a point, but greed could not cause no way near as much damage if it wasn't for human stupidity.
[2] While I'm much in favour of the concept that everybody should be free to kill himself in any way he pleases, I am totally opposed to make others pay for it. For example, smokers should have to pay for all smoking related medical bills out of their own pocket, rather than making government or health insurances pay for it.
[3] It is even more stupid to believe that the U.S. Department of Defence would allow an airliner - who was known to be 'hijacked' - come even near its headquarter without either intercepting it or shooting it down.
[4] 'Holocaust denial' is punishable with years of imprisonment in Germany, Austria, Australia, Canada and a dozen other countries, denying the defendants not only their right of free expression but even the right to provide evidence for their claims.
[5] Some researchers blame the addition of the rat poison sulphur fluoride to drinking water for the shocking lack of rage of most people. Interestingly, it was Russian dictator and mass murderer Joseph Stalin who introduced fluoride water as a means of pacifying gulag prisoners to save prison guards.
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You are conditioned to believe that smoking kills you. No doubt you were informed, as otherwise , how would you know - vicarious experience, people dying of smoking related cancer?Dogs forced to inhale smoke is not the same as humans smoking cigarettes in order to get relief from stress.
Now I am not advocating smoking - it will tend to kill. BUt the science goes like this:
Observe - some people have smoked all their life and not got cancer.
Conclusion: smoking does not kill by causing cancer.
Irt may be a risk factor.
Conclusion, it is not smoking that kills but the way you smoke.
The way you smoke includes: whether it is reducing anxiety or not; whether you smoke factory adulterated rubbish, or cigars / pipes with decent tobacco.
Remember this, carrot juice is good for you, unless you drink too much, in which case it'll kill you quicker than smoking. So don't tell me carrot juice will kill me, and I am stupid to drink it.
You are not as as smart as you think you are, or as compassionate as a result of your smugness eh? I should know, my smartness tends to make me smug too.
Otherwise, some good points: why not just urge people to boycott, and appeal to their brave, spiritual conscience? Get in touch with yours, and you'll find it easier, and serve us all better.
You exhibit a dangerous totalitarian streak, I suspect , because after all you are a materialist-aetheist - right on!
It's your smug kind that destroy the efforts of truth seekers.