Re: Your cellphones are more dangerous than my smoke

From: Notan <notan_at_ddress.com>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 09:52:40 -0600

SS wrote:
>
> "L Sternn" <lincolnfs_at_hm.net> wrote in message
> news:e36b81plll8btplalf1raho5lumtuhhrcd_at_4ax.com...
>
> >
> > Sorry but they have.
> >
> > You need to decide whether or not you're going to approach smoking
> > rationally, or whether you're going to approach it irrationaly.
> >
> >
> > If a bar wants to ban smoking, so be it - that is their right,
> >
> > I the gov't wants to ban smoking, that is a perversion of the free
> > market.
>
> But in order to be rational about this discussion, you have to be able to
> substitute words for "smoking" in the past two statements and still agree.
> Words like
>
> pornography
> heroin
> gambling
> nudity
>
> If you are unable to use all of those words with conviction in the last two
> sentences, the rationality of your discussion comes under suspicion.

Somewhere, the word "public" has to be incorporated.

As far as I'm concerned, what one does in the privacy of ones home, or in places designated for that specific action, are that persons business. In addition to smoking, if you want to sit around naked, shooting up heroin, while gambling and watching porn, go for it.

While I might not enjoy hearing about it, it's your business.

But, if those things are done in public, it becomes (partially) my business.

Notan Received on Sat May 14 2005 - 08:52:40 PDT