Full disclosure. I am, and have been, straight edge, for close to 20 years. I’m in my early 30’s, have a career, earn good money, live in a very nice place, drive a nice new car and basically all of the trappings of a young upwardly mobile type person, but I have never forgotten from where I come from, and straight edge has been something I live by (so much so that I do have a few straight edge tattoos, I tell you this not to engage in a “I’m cooler than everyone” contest, just as an illustrated of the level of committment I have for the philosophy).
Having said all of that I generally leave my life choices out of Diysearch and out of most of my life. Being “straight edge” is a personal choice of mine, and one I do not use as a measuring stick with which to judge the rest of the world, but there are instances where straight edge does serve as a compass.
This is one of those cases. Someone decided to post links to “cheap cigarettes” sites. They were, of course, deleted from the link queue (and never saw the light of day) but it got me thinking. The reason they were deleted, primarily, is that, being straight edge, I will not promote a behavior I find self-destructive, foolish and unhealthy. I don’t have a problem with people who smoke. One of my best friends smokes. I do not think any less of him for that, sure I may, on occassion chide him for his habbit, but it is all done in jest.
The principle here is that through including links to something like this, to me, is something I cannot do. So, the long and short of it is, don’t bother trying to submit links of this nature. They will never be included. Its that simple.
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This entry was posted by blinder on Saturday, November 4th, 2006, at 6:41 pm, and was filed in site news, diysearch.
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