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To: CSM
CSM: "Your fault for being eaten! You should have known better than to enter the property of cannibals."

Property rights only go as far as your neighbor's nose. Once you start hurting other people, with second hand smoke or your incisors, you forfeit your rights. That's pretty much the oldest and most fundamental tenet of Anglo Saxon Common Law known to me.

501 posted on 10/19/2006 12:32:20 PM PDT by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: Alter Kaker

Except of course, that there is no provable harm caused by second hand smoke. If you say there is, then we can ban all sorts of stuff. For instance, BBQ's, lawn mowers, idling vehicles, chemical cleaning of decks, etc. The difference between tobacco smoke and these others is simply that some people have demonized the tobacco smoke, while the other types of smoke are still allowable. For now.


503 posted on 10/19/2006 12:38:46 PM PDT by CSM ("When you stop lying about us, we'll stop telling the truth about you." No Truce With Kings)
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To: Alter Kaker

"Property rights only go as far as your neighbor's nose."

So, you are on the side of the city dwellers that get tired of the city, then complain about the terrible farm smells they have to smell because they moved to the country?

Whose side are you really on? I'm becomming very suspicious.


504 posted on 10/19/2006 12:40:30 PM PDT by CSM ("When you stop lying about us, we'll stop telling the truth about you." No Truce With Kings)
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