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From: "Keith Whaley"
Subject: Re: OT: I REALLY hate squirrels
Gore is a charlatan, but doing one's best to live cleaner and consume
less is a worthy goal. As long as one doesn't trample on the rights of
others in the process.
Your car tramples on my right to breathe fresh air.
Starting to get confused, there, Frank.
I suppose you want everybody on bicycles now?
That's a head shaker, pal.
Is it? Many places have laws prohibiting smoking around other people because
second hand tobacco smoke is "dangerous".
I believe in your neck of the woods, Keith, that smoking on outdoor decks is
prohibited, even though the smoke will just waft away, the same way 10,000
card exhaust gasses will do the same thing.
Car exhaust is equally, if not more dangerous, and yet we not only allow it,
we actively encourage people to drive.
The old adage "your rights end at the tip of my nose could be very
applicable, and at some point it's very possible that some smart person
could use the no smoking in public laws as a precedent to push for no car
exhaust in public laws.
It would likely be a non starter, but that is only because there isn't a
legal system going that isn't rife with hypocrisy.
William Robb
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