acroyear | Ban Fire Extinguishers - they promote BAD behaviour!

Memoirs of a Skepchick » Just say no to fire extinguishers (and premarital sex):

I know my position on this may be a little controversial, but I think it’s important to have an open and honest debate about the subject. Here we go.

I am anti-fire extinguisher.

Wait, don’t leave yet. Hear me out.

Before the invention of the fire extinguisher in 1816, people used sensible fire safety precautions. They did not leave oily rags piled in buckets next to the ashtray. They did not set their farts on fire. And they always kept their curtains far away from heating devices.

After the invention of the fire extinguisher, all hell broke loose. It didn’t take long for games such as “Tie a Lit Sparkler to the Cat” and “Flaming Monopoly” to explode — literally and metaphorically — in popularity all over the country. People were just looking for a license to burn, and they found it in the fire extinguisher.

Its sarcasm, of course. She explains later that this argument, that having the cure promotes suppposedly bad behaviour, is precisely the argument the right-wing religious nutballs are making in keeping HPV off the market.

I wonder if when they find a cure for AIDS/HIV (granted, some of them still refuse to acknowledge that HIV causes AIDS...but those same idiots probably still call it the "gay plague" anyways), the right-wing nutcases will try to ban that as well.