[Garnet Dawn]

The state mandates sprinklers, handicapped access, restroom design, inspects the kitchen, verifies the content of the menu, licenses the liquor and beer sales, regulates how many customers can be in the restaurant at one time, regulates the hours it can be open and what it can serve at what hour, assesses the wait-staff a presumed tips-income and helps design the parking lot.

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None of the above apply to behavior modification or social engineering. They are basic general guidelines for safety or tax purposes...and you are exaggerating on a few...we all know that. (I personally think pre-assessing tips for restaurant/bar employees sucks!)

The majority of the guidelines you named, have been formed through trial and error. You are getting a little carried away though. If inspections for all the above were performed with the magnifying glass intensity that seems to be reserved for smoking, very few establishments would be open for business.

[Hot Tabasco]

None of the above apply to behavior modification or social engineering.

While I agree wholeheartedly with your argument and those of SheLion and Gabz (I love them), logical facts supporting logical arguments no longer apply in this environment where so called "Conservatives" have devolved to the "ME" mentality inherent in the socialist democrat party to the point they willingly turn a blind eye to private property rights and tyrannical taxation simply to satisfy their own personal biases.......

As I stated to a jerk in an above post, his day is almost here and all I am going to do is sit back and laugh at his lament!