Anti-Anti-Anti-Smokers
October 15th, 2004
(I’m upping the anti)
The next person that whinges about restriction of smoking to private homes will receive a free gift.
Yes ladies and gentlemen I shall stand next to them, and share with them the gaseous byproduct of my digestive process. It’s my RIGHT isn’t it?
Isn’t it?
No it is not. Quite the opposite in fact. As part of your right to life, you have the responsibility to not interfere with the right to life of others. Since smoking reduces the expected life span of the people around you via passive smoking, you are interfering with their right to life. I’m sure you could also word that around having the right to not have people reduce your health but I’m not sure how to word it clearly and the right to life is a far better established right.
As for the threat to share the “gaseous byproduct of my digestive process”, were it enacted, I would be forced to remove the fire hazard with extreme prejudice (and the closest bucket of water).
UPDATE: er, clearly, I’m an idiot as I’m agree with David entirely. I guess I got confused with the anti-antiness of it all.