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You are acting as an apologist for every scent that you personally don't mind. You are the one who digressed away from pollution to odor. Let go of your hate,

You are acting as an apologist for every scent that you personally don't mind. You are the one who digressed away from pollution to odor. Let go of your hate, please. And please stop conflating odor with pollution, it is not becoming of you.

darkpuma 8y ago
>You are acting as an apologist for every scent that you personally don't mind. On the contrary, I defended the moral character of people who wear perfume, not the stench of perfume, since they do not categorically possess the same moral defect as smokers. (And I didn't defend in any way people who smell like campfires. People who go camping should bath before presenting themselves in public, they have absolutely no excuse.) Did you even read my post or did you assume the contents of it? Which each passing year, as cigarette smoking becomes less and less popular, the portion of the population who hate for the stench of people who smoke will only rise. A majority of the public in first world nations agrees with me, and that's not going to diminish. Smokers are left with a choice, either they change or they weather the hate they rightfully get from the rest of us.
- headstorm 8y ago
  "Moral defect"? Please, leave that tired language in the 19th century. I reject your appeal to popularity as well. I don't like tobacco smoke either, but I think you're judging a lot of people way more harshly than is healthy for public discourse.
- horsawlarway 8y ago
  > weather the hate they rightfully get from the rest of us. Wow. You're a bit of a trite asshat, huh? I don't smoke (cigarettes at least...) but if you're capable of hating someone because they smell vaguely of smoke... I dislike you a lot. That no compromise "one of us or one of them" attitude is basically lowest common denominator thinking. Maybe try toning it down some. - Some random person

darkpuma 8y ago

>You are acting as an apologist for every scent that you personally don't mind. On the contrary, I defended the moral character of people who wear perfume, not the stench of perfume, since they do not categorically possess the same moral defect as smokers. (And I didn't defend in any way people who smell like campfires. People who go camping should bath before presenting themselves in public, they have absolutely no excuse.) Did you even read my post or did you assume the contents of it? Which each passing year, as cigarette smoking becomes less and less popular, the portion of the population who hate for the stench of people who smoke will only rise. A majority of the public in first world nations agrees with me, and that's not going to diminish. Smokers are left with a choice, either they change or they weather the hate they rightfully get from the rest of us.

headstorm 8y ago
"Moral defect"? Please, leave that tired language in the 19th century. I reject your appeal to popularity as well. I don't like tobacco smoke either, but I think you're judging a lot of people way more harshly than is healthy for public discourse.
horsawlarway 8y ago
> weather the hate they rightfully get from the rest of us. Wow. You're a bit of a trite asshat, huh? I don't smoke (cigarettes at least...) but if you're capable of hating someone because they smell vaguely of smoke... I dislike you a lot. That no compromise "one of us or one of them" attitude is basically lowest common denominator thinking. Maybe try toning it down some. - Some random person