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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (13423)	5/11/2001 10:03:11 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 82486

The business about personal space was an analogy. Just as no one could help noticing, and finding it disruptive, if I stood on a chair in a restaurant, so, in this society, it is disruptive to engage in intimate activity in plain sight. "Nobody has to look" is insufficient: if the behavior is open, most people are bound to become aware of it. It is true that no one has a general right not to be offended. However, there are numerous rules, formal or informal, to prevent us jostling one another unnecessarily. There are ordinances against excessive noise; less formally, there are rules of courtesy, for example, to keep one's voice down in a restaurant; and it is integral to civilized life to prize mutual consideration about gratuitous offense. Pregnant women and nursing mother's are deserving of special treatment and accommodation. However, their condition is not a trump card in every situation. I have never noticed you expressing particular discomfort in putting forth your views of American intervention in the world, or the deficiencies of religion, which are pretty severe........