This is the third election in a row that Trump ran for president. Are you saying he wasn't fascist before?

But the electoral college is dumb and pointless. This is the first time a Republican won the popular vote since 2004, or since 1988 if you don't want to count an incumbent victory. That alone should tell you plenty about the state of the country right now.

choose between having an acute health condition and cancer

The ironic part is you just might be better off with the cancer. An acute problem could be anything, from broken bones or an infection to a heart attack or acute radiation poisoning. At least with cancer you know what you're going to get and should have time to seek treatment.

why do people have this innate ability to underestimate what we might be capable of?

Because we can see what we're currently capable of in terms of climate change, and the outlook is pretty bleak

why do you think its impossible for us to become masters of our own genome?

Because even in the best case scenario, this is dangerously close to eugenics

not getting off this rock means our species is doomed regardless of how ‘perfect’ we keep earth.

If we can't keep earth livable, an entire self-regulating planet that's been livable for hundreds of millions or billions of years, what are our chances of keeping anywhere else livable?

But it's also an 18 year old movie, so it doesn't do much to disprove that good comedies don't get made any more.

Trying to send a message with your vote is not worth it

That's like the entire point of voting though.

Seriously now, why don't you provide some clearer evidence showing what SBI is doing and why it's so bad? And why respond to my short summary of the video when @CileTheSane did a much more thorough breakdown?

We all know it's because you don't actually have any proof or solid reasoning for thinking these things, and you probably responded to me and not them because you're too lazy to read their longer post and think up a lie. But Cile watched a half hour video because of you and put some thought and effort into applying it to your fake arguments, you could at least try to defend your bigoted views.

There’s tons of evidence which shows that they are essentially harmless to others if smoked outdoors.

Care to show some of that evidence? Because the EPA and NCBI seem to disagree with you.

That’s why preventing people from getting sleep matters, but smoking outdoors does not.

But you used someone being loud and obnoxious and waking you up at 6am on a Saturday as an example of something that should explicitly be allowed.

as long as our actions are not significantly harmful to others, then there shouldn’t be any laws forbidding those actions.

But you're not being consistent about what "significantly harmful" even means. Loud noises apparently counts, but only if you want it to. Air pollution doesn't, even if you think it should.

Is OP harmed by someone smoking weed in the middle of nowhere?

To be fair, they specifically said "smoking just smells bad and is really unpleasant to be around in the street", so presumably they only really care about the ban when it's near other people and would be enforceable in the first place. So if no one's around, do what you want, but near other people you shouldn't smoke. That goes along rather neatly with your 'personal freedoms so long as there isn't harmful to others.'