| We’ve got laws against shooting each other & drunk driving — even smoking in restaurants and making “un-safe” children’s pajamas (with pages of regulations to make sure those kids PJs are non-flammable). Why? Pretty sure laws are to stop violent & careless people from doing whatever they want -- and killing, hurting or endangering other people in the process. Now, if I could only figure out why killing & endangering people with carbon pollution is getting a free pass, I could save myself a lot of sleepless nights. |  |
| I know its takes effort to change the way we generate & use energy, but just because doing the right thing takes effort does’t mean doing the wrong thing is legal. Or does it? I’m thinking about drunk driving again. Its cheaper and more convenient to drive drunk than it is call a cab, wait to be picked up & pay for the ride. I mean your car is already parked right outside the bar and you wouldn’t have to spend any extra cash. Still, its illegal for drunk people to drive. Logically, seems like it must be equally illegal to put gases into the air that ultimately take lives & put lives at risk. I’m no legal expert, but the message I’ve gotten is that its pretty much never ok to kill someone — no matter what technique you use to do it — unless its for self defense. I just can’t believe that every possibly method of killing someone needs to be described individually before its considered illegal. Aren't all the known & not-yet-known ways of killing people automatically illegal already? If not, creative murderers really have a leg up in the stay-out-of-jail game… |
