robbster 11 Oct 2007 10:57 am
Double Standards?
This morning is cloudy, overcast, and drab day here in New England. I’ve been procrastinating about taking the a/c out while silently volleying around the house packing a few more boxes to accommodate this moving to parts unknown plan that I developed late this summer…
Settling down with a steaming cup of coffee, I perused my favorite Usenet quit group. While poking through the posts I became interested in a Freedom Village post that was offering a link to free mentor support to anyone who needed quit smoking assistance. Because the site hosted three advertisements (Wal-Mart, Overstocked, and Netflix):
the Freedom Village site owner (Bubba) was unfortunately rudely intercepted by a few posters.
So I got to thinking that if Freedom Village violated the compost rules (no commercial posts permitted on this newsgroup,) then that would make www.Silkquit.org also a violator of compost policy.
As an example of the direction my thinking is going in: when I clicked on the Silkquit meter page I could purchase a Quit Key for $59.95 or I could get hypnotized for $250.00. Check it out! Google ads rotate so you won’t see the same ads that I did when you visit www.silkquit.org
I also rediscovered that myopic thinking tends to infuriate me. This was another case of obviously palpable double standards. Wikipedia perhaps sums it up best.
“Willful ignorance is a bad faith decision to avoid becoming informed about something so as to avoid having to make undesirable decisions that such information might prompt.”
~robbster
