[bamahead]

If smokers and the families of smokers were on tv demanding a cure, and trying to make you feel like a vicious, unfeeling bigot for not donating enough, not caring enough, don't tell me you wouldn't suggest that people stop smoking.

Actually many of them were on TV not that many years ago....demanding that the Clinton Justice Dept. sue the pants off the tobacco companies, to punish them for their own irresponsible choices that they had made for years.

Once the fleecing started, it paved the way for individual lawsuits by smokers against big tobacco, and they now had a case too thanks to the feds. Trial lawyers had a field day with all that (and still are).

I'll withhold my moral judgement on AIDS sufferers, but the crux of this arguement isn't all that different.

[Dianna]

Actually many of them were on TV not that many years ago....demanding that the Clinton Justice Dept. sue the pants off the tobacco companies, to punish them for their own irresponsible choices that they had made for years.

It wasn't conservatives cheering them on. At least they limited themselves to the companies involved and didn't try to shame John Q Public.