[jambutty]

Just a word or three about the hunting ban. In days of old when men were bold they hunted to put food on what passed for a table. In this day and age we have no need to hunt for food so now they do it for sport and claim that it is a tradition going back centuries. To justify their cruel sport they claim that hunting with hounds is the only way to control foxes. Hogwash! The hunt is a blood sport, nothing less and takes place to satisfy the blood lust of some people.

Indeed any so called sport that means an animal is injured or killed should be banned and that includes fishing for sport. Although I see nothing wrong in fishing for your supper and I would see nothing wrong in hunting a fox if it was taken home and eaten. But it isn’t. It is chased and ripped apart for the thrill of the chase.

If man and woman wants to participate in a sport they should not use animals to achieve a result.

Originally Posted by -pixie

I fully agree with the smoking ban actually, at least in open public places. I hate walking down the street and breathing in someones second hand smoke. Or if I am standing at the bus stop and someone decides to fill the air with smoke. Their "free will" to smoke, pollutes my personal space.

But pixie you are quite happy to breathe in killer vehicle exhaust fumes. Seems to be a rather odd approach!


I wonder have any of the anti-smoking brigade walked down the street when the traffic alongside comes to a stop for lights or something and they get a face full of exhaust fumes? Did they tap on the driver’s window and complain? No of course not! They would get told where to go.


When you are in your car, anti-smoker, not you pixie, stuck behind a lorry belching smoke and noxious gasses that get right up your nose, do you flag down the driver and explain that his vehicle is polluting your air? When stuck in a traffic jam and the air is foul with fumes, does anyone nip out of their car and remonstrate with the nearest driver?


So why pick on the smoker?


If you anti-smoker are going to castigate the smoker for polluting your air, shouldn’t you also go after drivers who do far, far worse than a few fags?


Oh! I get it! You drive or use public transport so it’s OK to pollute other people’s air but you don’t smoke so we must not do so either or at least do so away from your lungs.


A classic case of hypocrisy if ever there were one.