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Yes it is a dupe of mine (even though it's currently dead):

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Thank-You-For-Smoking-How-To-Argue

even though the embed appears dead, i believe this is a dupe
http://videosift.com/video/Thank-You-For-Smoking-How-To-Argue

I tried to watch this with my wife, who lost her brother who was deaf. Needless to say, we lasted about five minutes into the film before choosing another.

I do want to watch the whole thing one day. Is the lead character also the lead from Thank You For Smoking?

Oh yeah, also, watching this video made me feel like I was watching the movie "Thank you for smoking".

I was actually referring to Jason Reitman, the director of the movie (he also directed Juno and Thank You for Smoking). But you're right, Jason Bateman is in the film (though it looks like he has a small part, based on this trailer).

I would imagine if you made cars illegal, car related deaths would go down. That isn't the point though. You would be punishing people that haven't done something on the off chance that they might. It is even worse than the whole pre-crime stuff of Minority Report, it is punishing people of no crime. Might it be more safe to ban weapons completely, perhaps, but at a great cost of liberty... and like someone (O wait me!) mentioned before, there is no logical ending point to keeping you safe. Like the great movie, "Thank You for Smoking", jested at; should we outlaw New England Cheddar because of people dying from high cholesterol? While this seems ridiculous, it isn't a stretch of the imagination, and moreover, there is no logical distinction between the two. What you have is a system that is made up of preventative safety measures based on arbitrary personal values, a realm that both Ben Francklin and Plato/Socrates warned against. The tyranny of the majority masked in the public good (in this case, safety). The battle cry of the "majority good" flies in face of the ideas the social contract and civil liberties (classical liberalism).

To rephrase what someone said before, there is no perfect system. Horrible things are going to happen. The real question is in what manor will this happen. Will we be free to make our own mistakes and suffer the consequences of poor judgment and/or bad luck. Or will we subject ourselves to tyrannical (in the sense of a moral majority overruling a minority, even if that minority is 48% of people) safety control ebbing away at our every freedom. More over, things could (as they did in Greece) switch from legal and noble to illegal and punishable by death very swiftly. This was in the ancient world, just imagine what shifts in life could be made via modern communications?!

I do truly fear centralized power of any kind; be it government or commercial. My fears are realized all to often in the long history of the human race. Domination and might makes right all to often are the prevailing models of society, I see moving away from the social contract and to a system of moral governance as a return to what is basically a theocracy of dogooders trying to get their moral agendas on top of the "new laws here" list.

ooohh....dead shit and down votes, to the king....an shit-
maybe start wiff' diss random list, and make yer way through them.....zifffy's lazy like that....
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just knows knows some a these are alive....
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The quality is crap, but http://youtube.com/watch?v=mRnp0AQYHVg I think is the one you're referring to...

Don't forget "Thank You For Smoking" (the movie) which uses the song in it, as well. Great movie, btw.

It's worth pointing out that this was written and directed by Jason Reitman, son of Ivan Reitman of "Ghostbusters" fame. This short is from 2004, and got him a lot of buzz. Since then, he directed the feature film "Thank You For Smoking", and has another film coming out next year.

As a law student, I think this is one of the funniest freakin' things I've ever seen.