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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: one_less who wrote (6415)4/2/2002 8:00:07 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
Similar to the argument about the rights of tobacco smokers.

Well, it's similar in that people share a public space and someone is going to be put out. Like religion in shared space, you can't have both smoke and no smoke in the same space. You can't very well be in the room with a Christian smoking a stogie, a Muslim smoking a pipe, and a Jew smoking a cigarette and solve the problem by inviting a Unitarian who isn't smoking anything. There's still smoke in the room. I think that's where the comparison ends.

Intrusive smoke is a matter of both aesthetics and health.
Religion would be a much more serious matter, even if it weren't specified in the Constitution. We've talked here about one's religious beliefs being, like, at the very essence of a person. Being an atheist or agnostic is not like not smoking. We have an essence, too. It's not a vacuum to be filled with smoke or filled with nothing.
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