By Michael's logic, there should be no health department regulations re
sanitation in restaurant kitchens, right?
Lenief Heimstead
Stevens Square
From: "Michael Hohmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Michael Atherton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <mpls@mnforum.org>
Subject: RE: [Mpls] On the smoking ban and Porter's
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:18:55 -0600
Congratulations to Michael on his persistence and his logic.
Mike Hohmann
Linden Hills
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of Michael Atherton
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 7:00 AM
> To: mpls@mnforum.org
> Subject: RE: [Mpls] On the smoking ban and Porter's
>
>
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> I place more value on an individual's right to make their own
> decisions about their lungs/life/health. Again, no one is
> exposed to secondhand smoke who doesn't make an explicit
> choice to do so.
>
> What people fail to see is that the power and morality that
> allows you to force your decisions on others, allows the
> imposition of any arbitrary decision on you as well. That is,
> if you and the government decide that X is bad, then you eliminate
> the right of people to make their own decisions. This really
> drives me crazy, because so many people on this List who hold
> Liberal views are aghast at the push by Evangelical
> Christians to force their values on their fellow Americans,
> yet they have no qualms about using the same governmental
> power to force Liberal values onto others....
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>
> Michael Atherton
> Prospect Park
>
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