Should Native Americans pay compensation for lung cancer since they introduced tobacco to European settlers?
What about damages caused by fires ignited by smokers? Or is it all poetic justice?
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1 :
They did not introduce it, the explorers took it back to Europe and introduced it. The Indians didn't.
2 :
Its poetic justice for most people as enough time has passed that we know what happens if we smoke, so its our own fault. Compensation would only have applied to people right at the beginning who didn't know the effects. But even then, i don't think the distributors would have known the end result either, so I think earth is to blame for producing it :D xx
3 :
Now that would be a very irrational law. I really don't think they should.
4 :
No, they shouldn't if you use it then its your own stupid fault.
5 :
I am too torn up about the treatment that my Saxon forefathers met at the hands of the Angles to properly answer the question. I need compensation; wheres my check. I am also a little pissed about the way my Irish forefathers were treated. I will check the mailbox for reparations
6 :
I can see it now...the EU files a class action suit against Native American tribes that run casinos to pay for the health costs of smoking. Then the Native Americans would sue the EU for 6 quadrillion dollars for the value of North America. That would be a hoot. It wouldn't get anywhere, but it is hilarious to think about.
7 :
Yes they should pay they could use the money they would be paid for all the land in the US.
8 :
oh yea the indians really bossed the white man around and forced them to smoke. when did they do that? somwhere in between fighting for their lives and being murdered to the brink of extermination? we talk about hitler but our leaders were almost as bad as it pertained to the indians. so yea they were here first and we just shoved them into the crappiest part of the country after we were done killing them so we need to take responsibility for our own actions
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no im pretty sure we payed our price when we got massacred in the early days and yea real Original blame the native americans and smokers it falls back on those people who chose to smoke not on the people who tryed to make money off crops and its the tobacco industry that puts the poison in the tobacco to make it addictive and ps its the 21st century they have Electric cigs that dnt create lung cancer or any damage wut so ever but we have to make the decion to get it so its on us and the fire damage ya maybe they should
10 :
Disclaimer: This is all opinion only. No they shouldn't, and no it isn't 'justice'. This goes back to the age old question of "Who do I blame for my problems?" The correct answer in 99% of cases is - myself. People make concious decisions that affect their lives every day, and when we make a poor decision that causes us problems, people in general want something to blame. If we get laid off, we blame the economy, if we get in a car accident we blame the other driver or road conditions, if we can't get a job we blame the employers. The truth is, we could have worked harder, driven safer and gone to college but we didn't. Our lives are a direct result of the actions we take as individuals. Outside influences have a limited impact because we almost always have a choice of how to respond to these influences. So when you ask if the Native Americans should pay us compensation for introducing us to tobacco I can't help but laugh a little and cry a little. Do the europeans pay compensation for inventing the gun? Americans for the Atom Bomb? How about we sue the Africans for AIDS? We could hit Ford pretty hard - those cars are mighty dangerous. Bottom line (and please, I'm begging EVERYONE): Stop thinking that it is someone else's fault that life is hard, and please stop thinking that you deserve some sort of compensation for your problems.
11 :
sure.....smokers get a million bucks .....injuns git a billion for their land...
12 :
sure. right after you compensate us for introducing us to small pox and all the other diseases you carried. stupid question.
13 :
Now you're being really stupid.
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