I will go back to what I said to someone once. I like to drink beer. One by-product of me drinking beer is urine. Is it ok for me to dump that by-product on someone'e head? If not, than it is not OK for someone else to blow second hand smole where I might inhale it.
Sorry, once again I think a person's right to not breathe second hand smoke trumps another person's right to produce that second hand smoke. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Michael Grant [Modus IS] <[email protected]>wrote: > I think the majority of smokers need to be more considerate and that many > anti-smokers need to be a little less outraged by the whole thing. Smoking > is on the decline steadily and it won't be that many more years before you > can't smoke anywhere in public. (Despite the fact you'll still be able to > eat yourself into the hospital all you want.) I think everyone needs to try > and be a little more considerate or one another. > > That being said, it's not illegal so therefore you can exercise your right > to do it, no matter how ignorantly you might choose to. A smoker can smoke > (by-laws permitting) or exercise any other rights they have. You can > exercise your rights in the same way. If you don't like the way someone > else > is exercising the same rights that's a matter of opinion. You aren't > infringing on someone rights by exercising your own. > > > Why is it OK to have that attitude on a personal level, but not a > corporate one? > Well a smoker doesn't personally gain by smoking. A corporation gains a lot > by spewing smoke into the air or power companies with high tension power > lines. I think that's why there's a difference. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:14 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: I am all for gay marriage... > > See, that is where I think smoker's logic is flawed. They feel that their > right to smoke (and produce second hand smoke) outweighs the rights of > those > who do not want to breathe that second hand smoke. I see it as the > opposite, and did when I smoked. > > Why is it OK to have that attitude on a personal level, but not a corporate > one? If you do not want to live near factories spewing smoke into the air, > then you can remove yourself from that situation? If you do not want to > live > near high tension power lines, remove yourself from that situation. > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Michael Grant [Modus IS] > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > I will grant you that, but if you agree that a smoker had a right to > > smoke, > > > than common sense would dictate that you would agree a non-smoker has a > > > right to not breathe second-hand smoke. > > > > Well non-smokers do have the right not to breathe in second-hand smoke. > > Technically it's your choice to stay in a situation where there is second > > hand smoke, and it's also your choice to breathe in that situation. > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:283538 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
