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unhinged to respect everyone and not force our perceptions and beliefs on others? 120828
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h|s|g It seems that many sides feel that the boundaries of where one is affected by another are not agreed upon. The smoking_in_restaurants may be a decent example.

I don't like cigarette smoke. But I do respect someone's right to smoke if it doesn't come anywhere near me. The debate in this example of where that line is drawn could teach us all much. I might personally be happy if let's say I go to a bar and there's no smoke, but I do not think that this is fair to smokers. The more logical solution- which I've yet to see- is the option of having smoking bars & others that are not. 		120828
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unhinged yeah; they did that in milwaukee before the state wide smoking ban took effect and it worked just fine for everyone.


non smokers had places to go and smokers had places to go and everyone was happy. until some self_righteous sanctimonious asshole legislator types decided they had to inflict their idea of right on the whole.

i.e. the tea_party and conservative right in general; even though there is freedom of religion in this country they generally inform their political policies on their religious beliefs and force them on everyone. a more specific example being the fact that abortion is such a big issue in this election. the more infuriating part of that issue being the same conservatives would cut every and all social programs to help the women they would force to have unwanted children.

'here, do what i want you to without any compassion or support at all. do what i say because i am right and you are wrong.'


telling other people what to do according to your wants and beliefs has always been disgusting to me. it is not my right to tell you what to do, just like it isn't your right to tell me what to do. compassionate and respectful tolerance seems to be too much for a vast majority of greedy americans to catch on to though; in the words of the most despicable president of the past 100 years 'greed is good'


even though that is what has caused so much global animosity towards this country; even though that is why the poverty rate here has escalated exponentially and the middle class is all but disappeared.


so just keep those blinders on and refuse to open your mind to others. the karma of inflicting that kind of pain on others is plunging this whole society into a really really dark age. we will all suffer the consequences. thanks. thanks a lot. 		120829
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no reason people who don't eat meat always try so hard to tell me things i already know 120829
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z i, for one, like the smoke-free laws. i have always considered smoke an assault. the problem is, now all of the doorways to the street, in new york, are filled with smoke. that is almost as bad as having to deal with it indoors, but not quite. what i hate particularly, is when smokers pause to light up just inside of a threshold, leaving the richest cloud of carcinogens inside, before stepping outside. that goes for the exit steps from the subway, too. being behind a smoker who does that is foul. second-hand smoke is a killer. please don't injure me with your affliction. 120829
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