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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: Lifestyle Choices (was Re: Sexuality)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.063141.6467@microsoft.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 06:31:41 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec30.185545.26789@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1992Dec30.191743.7958@asl.dl.nec.com> <1992Dec30.234500.21163@anasazi.com>
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- In article <1992Dec30.234500.21163@anasazi.com> briand@anasazi.com (Brian Douglass) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec30.185545.26789@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Evelyn C. Leeper) writes:
- >>>
- >[deleted stuff]
- >>
- >>>All people are asking is that unless you can come up with some
- >>>*secular* reason for why their lifestyle choice is bad, you grant
- >>>them the same rights they are willing to grant you: the right to
- >>>live their life without persecution.
- >
- >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.
-
- Smokers are not excluded from public places - _smoking_ is.
- If someone were to pass a law that said "No one can have sex on
- their table at a restaurant," I think I might be persauded to
- be in favor of it.
- In this case, though, it's clearly the action that is forbidden,
- not the person. And that action is potentially as hazardous to
- the people around you as firing a loaded gun.
-
-
- > 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.
-
- There is no "right to smoke." You argument makes no sense.
-
- -Phil
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