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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (114014)	6/16/2008 1:17:08 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 132070

KT, <You don't have a right to pollute or cause cancer in others for your personal addiction.< This is more leftist totalitarianism. 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 values when it deems them appropriate and trash anyone that dictates values it opposes.