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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (114024)6/16/2008 4:30:58 PM
From: Horgad  Read Replies (1) of 132070
 
"I don't smoke, but if I did, I should not be allowed to smoke where smoking is prohibited. However, that should not give non-smokers the right to dictate where smokers can smoke. That should be up to the owner of the establishment etc.... The customers in turn should then have the right to either go to a smoking establishment because they are smokers or avoid it because they don't like smoke and vice versa. The market would then take care of the distribution of smoking vs. non-smoking establishments and everyone would be happy.

But that's not what the left wants. It's wants to dictate..."

Sorry individual freedom has to stop when it infringes on the freedoms of others. Before the anti-smoking movement and laws, it was very difficult (or even impossible) to lead a normal free life and avoid second hand smoke. Those laws have given far more freedoms to people than they have taken away.

However now that they have broken the restaurants and bars out of the "smoking" section mindset. I wouldn't mind if they lifted those specific laws and let capitalism run its course. Before there were basically zero no smoking restaurants and bars to choose from (there was no balance). Now that the mindset has been broken things MIGHT work out OK and we MIGHT get some reasonable balance of smoking and non-smoking establishments.
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