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To: KyrosL who wrote (64359)5/28/2005 1:05:58 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Kyros, it might surprise you to learn that Chinese aren't simple morons without senses to warn them about ingesting toxins.

I didn't need warning labels and other government bureaucracy to tell me that my father's pipe stank when I was very young.

Humans are part of an eons-long evolutionary process which monkeys are also part of and they instinctively know what's toxic and what's not, more or less, though modern chemistry can fool them.

Plants grow toxins to defend themselves. Adult humans enjoy playing games with plant toxins. They do so at their peril.

Whining that they didn't know cigarettes are bad for them because they didn't have warning labels is silly. Same for smoking opium. It would have made their brain go wonky and they would be able to figure out that a wonky brain isn't a good thing. No warning label needed; "Note - ingestion of this product will spazz out your brain". That would be more like an advertisement!! That's what people are wanting to do.

Always happy to help with your education Kyros! Now you know that Chinese are not all mindless drug-crazed idiots [though Yiwu the Mad and Bubba the Babbling claim all Chinese think the same as them, and that could mislead you into thinking they are - though you should be able to figure out from their comments that they are probably unreliable analysts].

Mqurice
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