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[Frame57]

Originally Posted by August

I'd pick the surgeon who has the better record of success for that type of procedure of course. It's not the answer you're looking for but I think it's wrong to pick ones surgeons, pilots, artists, craftsmen, employees or whatever, by any criteria besides their job performance.

Let me ask you a question in return:

You need that heart valve surgery. One surgeon occasionally smokes pot when he's off duty and not on call, the other drinks a quart of Jack Daniels a day that he keeps in his desk drawer. Which one do you allow to operate on you?

Seeing as you do not want to play, I will still answer yours. This becomes the lesser of two evils. You baited it by giving the pot head an occaisional toke and the other is a drunkard. Obviously I would go with the occaisional pothead.

[August]

Originally Posted by Frame57

Seeing as you do not want to play, I will still answer yours. This becomes the lesser of two evils. You baited it by giving the pot head an occaisional toke and the other is a drunkard. Obviously I would go with the occaisional pothead.

And you didn't bait yours with a quarter ounce a day smoker vs the straight arrow?

My point was that the only valid measure of a persons ability on the job is their performance on the job, not what they may or may not do in their off duty time. Now it's quite likely that both the heavy pot smoker and the heavy drinker are not going to have good track records, regardless of the legality of their favorite drug, but again it's their job performance that counts.