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- From: harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp)
- Subject: Re: Lifestyle Choices (was Re: Sexuality)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.045429.25082@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Dec30.162502.6756@asl.dl.nec.com> <1992Dec30.185545.26789@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1992Dec30.191743.7958@asl.dl.nec.com> <1992Dec30.234500.21163@anasazi.com>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:54:29 GMT
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- briand@anasazi.com (Brian Douglass) writes:
-
- >Tell that to a smoker. Clearly this is a lifestyle choice, and yet
- >non-smokers have persecuted them out of most public places. Why? Because
- >non-smokers find smoking offensive, smelly, and possibly dangerous to their
- >health. But in this battle the rights of a clear minority, have had little
- >weight in comparison to the greater good of the public. That is the rights
- >of the majority have been deemed more important than the rights of a
- >minority.
-
- That's apples vs oranges.
-
- Second hand smoke causes toxins to enter _my_ bloodstream that _I_
- don't want there. The idea that lesbigays somehow harm heterosexuals
- is outrageous. The idea that smokers harm nonsmokers is a matter of
- medical fact.
- --
- -----------------Greg-Harp----------------harp@netcom.com------------------
- "I think I've reached that point / Where every word that you write /
- Of every blood dark sea / And every soul black night / And every dream
- you dream me in / And every perfect free from sin / And burning eyes /
- And hearts on fire / Are just the same old song" -- The Cure
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