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To: Bill who wrote (13245)	5/8/2001 10:03:29 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

On the topic of public breast feeding, why do so many people condone it while condemning public urination? Both are acts of good health where the primary objection is the exposure of private parts. Hard to believe that you could outdo Neocon on this one, Bill, but somehow, you've managed. The above is clearly superior to Neocon's formulation. No, we ought to pass laws enjoining discretion...They ought not to be allowed to breast feed in a common dining area, for example... The clowns of the righteous right are an endless deep well of humor. There oughta be a law against all the excessive mirth you guys supply.

To: Bill who wrote (13245)	5/8/2001 1:58:21 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You have now opened yourself to being called a pervert. No analogy will be accepted.

To: Bill who wrote (13245)	5/8/2001 9:13:16 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

On the topic of public breast feeding, why do so many people condone it while condemning public urination? Both are acts of good health where the primary objection is the exposure of private parts. I thought that the primary objection to public urination is that urination leaves a puddle of malodorous liquid lying around, but perhaps I was wrong. The notion of banning breastfeeding in any public place seems as absurd to me as any of the "ban whatever I don't like" exercises. Anyone who is offended by a woman discreetly feeding a child can simply be told not to look. Besides, as rational people often say when confronted by the excesses of PC speech control, you don't have a right not to be offended. In the event that a woman is breastfeeding indiscreetly - a very hypothetical situation - she can easily be asked to be more discreet, not because she is breastfeeding, but because she is creating a disturbance. If someone talks too loudly in a restaurant, we don't ask the management to prohibit talking, we ask the management to ask the offending person to talk more quietly. I see no reason not to apply the same common-sense attitude to breastfeeding. This is another case where the sex-obsessed prudishness of the religious right comes into conflict with the more open-minded attitudes of conservatives with libertarian leanings. As usual, I hope the libertarian inclination prevails. I am not comfortable with the notion that a few shriveled old prunes can impose their Victorian notion of propriety on the rest of us, and the idea of asking a woman to leave a room because her child is hungry and needs to be fed is pretty offensive to me.