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Post by
buzz3070
how smoking is controlled in a private setting should be left up to the owner of said private property and how it is controlled in a public setting should be left up to the people/local/regional government.
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Post by
Jubilee
Outside of a certain hard-core flavor of libertarianism it's inane to suggest a person cannot without hypocrisy think some should be legal and others shouldn't.
I believe his point is exactly that a person cannot do that without hypocrisy. You calling his argument inane isn't a very positive response.
Post by
MrSCH
This is going to sound
horrible.
So because one person's asthma is terrible, the other 99.9999% of the population should stop doing things which harm you?
We should all stop driving cars too because of that one person who has brittle bone disease, just in case, you know?
And we should block out the sun, I once heard there was a person who couldn't tolerate it.
Post by
Jubilee
This is going to sound
horrible.
So because one person's asthma is terrible, the other 99.9999% of the population should stop doing things which harm you?
We should all stop driving cars too because of that one person who has brittle bone disease, just in case, you know?
And we should block out the sun, I once heard there was a person who couldn't tolerate it.
Should we not stop slavery because one group of people were suffering from it? At what point do you draw the line, or as
the drunk Ron Paul supporter
so besottedly put it, "What's the legal limit of hurting somebody?"
Post by
MrSCH
Slavery was a blatant abuse of human rights forced by few onto many, for personal gain.
However, stopping many from experiencing their human rights because of few is equally wrong.
Post by
Jubilee
Slavery was a blatant abuse of human rights forced by few onto many, for personal gain.
However, stopping many from experiencing their human rights because of few is equally wrong.
Does not every person have the right to not have their well being put at risk by others?
Post by
MrSCH
Then why do we put up with cars on the road?
Or is it ok to put health at risk if you benefit from it personally?
Post by
Jubilee
Then why do we put up with cars on the road?
Or is it ok to put health at risk if you benefit from it personally?
Cars are heavily regulated, if you added up every scrape with the law average people get into I would not be surprised if traffic violations are first by far. So that analogy would demand strict regulations for smoking too, no?
Post by
MrSCH
Don't think so.
the only analogy I was making is that every single car that drives past you is in some way endangering your health (unless you enjoy carbon monoxide!)
Therefore why do the people who complain about smoking in the street not complain about this too?
I would say the car was doing worse for Funden's health than the smoker. It's rare the smoker blows it right down your throat, so we're talking the small amount from the burning or some carried on the breeze. Add up every car which drives past you and it's probably worse.
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MrSCH
Well, we managed for over a million years without them, something tells me it's not exactly impossible ;)
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