Posted on 05/26/2013 10:46:26 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
1915: Anti-Smoking Sign, Zion, Illinois
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You’re so cute when you spout the progressive agenda. Enjoy your fern bars while you can.
Voting with your feet is progressive? It’s actually one of the tenets of federalism and the idea that states can act as experimental laboratories.
Don’t be upset that non-smokers don’t want to visit your smoke-filled bars. Thinking that you can inflict your life choices on others is certainly progressive though.
Not true....some people smoke ‘on occassion’ because they enjoy doing so...same with pipe smokers.... No different then those who have a alcohol on occassion. One does not have to be addicted...people can and do enjoy these.
And by the way...I don’t want to pay for people with Std’s who choose to screw around....like many 20 yr. olds do...who also can get “addicted” in their sexual behavior.
As for your allergies...that’s YOUR problem to cope with just as other people have to cope with their medical limitations.......and yes you have a say...go somewhere where your allergies don’t affect you...you are “free” to do so...and there’s plenty “other” choices. If you want a smoke free area...go where there isn’t any.
Business owners have a “right” concerning the businesses they own...and that right has been taken from them on who they choose to allow in thier place of business.
You just can’t get your head around the real issue....it’s not about smoking, or anyones “comfort”...nor any other issues people want to make issue about. It’s about Government dictatation in the life of people. ...you have to grow up a few years more....apparently your rights and freedoms have not yet been trampled on enough or you would not be taking the stand you are.
You are just too young and nieve to grasp
I’ve stated numerous times in this thread that business owners should run their business as they like. However smokers have no right to complain when smoking is banned in public areas. Your smoking just doesn’t affect you. It affects all those around you. You aren’t partaking in an activity isolated to you.
You both seem upset that you aren’t free to smoke whereever you want. Given the choice, most business owners would ban smoking nowadays. This isn’t the 60s, you aren’t Don Draper, and smoking isn’t cool.
You both should be more concerned with businesses being forced to violate their religious conscience...
...still missing the point I see.....
ahh youth....time and tide will clarify for you what you apparently have difficulty grasping now.
Ah you smokers are adorable. Arguing for your right to smoke just like liberals argue for their right to abort.
Whatever makes you feel better lol,
People like you are the reason whenever I see smoking laws being broken, I smile. You cant regulate people’s lives with your imaginary “allergies”
I smile every time the tax rates on tobacco go up. Those increases are passed by conservatives (and liberals) marching into voting booths and freely voting to tax your filthy habit.
The plus side is that increases in taxes results in a decrease in demand. Econ 101. It’s a win.
The smoking wars are over. Deal with it.
typical 20 year old response....still missing the point...
>>>’The smoking wars are over. Deal with it<<<<<<
Looks like you’re having a hard time letting go of the war or you wouldn’t be posting here...LOL
you and hawkhogan need to meet on this thread.....LOL...wait til they go after the lard butts...others...next!
They’re hopeless in understanding what Freedom is...
...their definition is.. we’re free UNLESS it disturbes they’re idea of a perfect society and behavior. They’ll be the same ones who will eventually gravitate to a socialist society...willingly.
There’s no such things as absolute freedom, libertarian. These notions of absolute freedom is how the left justifies same sex marriage and abortion.
rotflol.....
freedom...educate yourself....
1. the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint.
2. exemption from external control.
3. the power to determine action without restraint.
4. political or national independence.
5. personal liberty: slaves who bought their freedom.
6. exemption; immunity: freedom from fear.
7. the absence of or release from ties or obligations.
8. ease or facility of movement or action.
9. frankness of manner or speech.
10. a liberty taken.
11. civil liberty, as opposed to subjection to an arbitrary or despotic government.
12. the right to enjoy all the privileges or special rights of membership in a community.
13. the right to frequent, enjoy, or use at will.
Great run down. Except you don’t have the freedom to nuisance me. You don’t have the freedom to redefine marriage. You don’t have the fteeedom to abort a baby out of convenience. You don’t have unlimited freedoms. Sorry to burst your libertarian bubble.
LOLOLOL....you missed it again! Oh this is just too funny! Time to move on to adult conversations...but thank you for assuring me that this generations youth still need alot of work to reach par.
Yup. I received a full scholarship to undergrad and a full scholarship to law school, but I’m not smart enough to out debate a smoker who wants to force his bs habit on the populace? Hardly. Freedoms aren’t unlimited. Try a libertarian board if you want to promote your libertarian nonsense.
BTW there are ‘many’ educated idiots with various degrees who lack the ability to discern the obvious....you will learn in time Grasshopper.
Not much to discern in this discussion. You believe in unlimited freedoms, even when those freedoms interfere with those around you. Typical liberaltarian.
Doctors do say that people with sensitive noses are sexually repressed...I think I’ll just continue to have that occassional smoke.......
....but you might want to ask yourself if it’s really the smoking that bothers you, or is it the sight of someone enjoying themselves?...maybe you’re even one who is looking forward to martial law?
Alas...to continue this battle of wits with you would be unfair you’re obviously unarmed.
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