Think. Question. Read between the lines.

Recently, a friend and I were discussing (to put it mildly) whether colleges should allow a smoking zone on campus so that those in love with the cancer stick could effectively exercise their freedoms while respecting the freedoms of others. Soon she told me I had no chance at convincing anyone "who mattered" to even consider implementing such an idea, because the "only support I could get was from college students, which was not good enough". This was my reply -

"College going students are the minds the system is training to run it in the future. Also, since the very presence of a system implies expected improvement, one implicitly credits said students with superior judgement, intelligence and capacity and sufficient and continuously improving experience to base said capabilities on. Discrediting their opinions reflects poorly on both you and the system. It is akin to calling the system a factory and us its androids. And since it is safe to say that the system has been around for long enough for its products to be running it now, the very presence of a system run by such electronic thought pales into insignificance. Don't listen to what they say. We are being manufactured. Nihilism -> Revolution -> Anarchy. Think. Question. Read between the lines."

To the best of my knowledge, the message is still lost on her. I just love the irony life keeps throwing at me.