quittin' smoking

[Christopher tm]

What I wanna know is when will the government protect me from having
to look at all of the ugly people as I walk the streets of Pittsburgh?

My sensibilities are constantly being offended. There ought to be a law.



On 3/14/06, Mike Yacht <meatnog at meatnog.com> wrote:
> Yes, and if you don't like that the society passes such laws you can go to a
> state/country that doesn't have them.
>
> I love the libertarian vacuum fallacy!
>
>
> - Mike
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgh-goth-list-bounces at listless.org [mailto:pgh-goth-list-
> > bounces at listless.org] On Behalf Of Chris Rapier
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:49 AM
> > Cc: pgh-goth-list at listless.org
> > Subject: Re: quittin' smoking
> >
> > See my whole feeling is that if you don't like the smoke you don't
> > have to go there. Everyone makes choices in life and its really a
> > matter of what option is most important to you. If going to a club or
> > a bar that has smoking is more important than not being around smoke
> > then thats your choice. Obviously, this is just as true for smokers.
> > If going to a non-smoking place is more imporatnt to you than having a
> > smoke then that is their choice. Each group respects the others
> > boundaries and behaves themselves when they made the choice to go
> > either type of location.
> >
> > Of course, no one really wants to allow that. I mean, why should we
> > allow adults to engage in legal behaviour around other people who are
> > cognizant of the risks and have made the choice to be there? Why
> > should we when we can pass a law to criminalise behaviour? I love the
> > nanny state! SWADDLE ME BABY!

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Christopher tm

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