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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:53:07 -0500
From: "Dennis Tester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [StPaul] City Smoking Ban Vetoed - GEE
THAT'S A BIG
SURPRIZE !
To: "Dan Dobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "St. Paul
Issues Forum"
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Dan Dobson said: "I, for one, will never set foot in
Mancini's
and Fabulous Ferns again. At least not while Nick
Mancini is alive and Charles Sinkler is involved with
Fern's. I think I will start to ask all
establishments, "Do you allow smoking" and if they do,
simply not patronize them."
Ah, isn't the free market wonderful!
Dennis Tester
Mac-Groveland
Do you see what's REALLY wrong here? While smoking is
the issue at hand, this situation plays out ACROSS THE
BOARD in every facet of a capitalistic society.
Consider:
Non-smokers have to be inconvenienced to find an
establishment that doesn't allow smoking.
On the other hand:
Smokers have to be inconvenienced to find places that
allows smoking.
But, it's the smokers that are causing the problems
and it's they that should be inconvenienced and not
the non-smokers, who are the victims.
Why should Mr. Dobson have to inconvenience himself
while the smokers don't?
I would contend that this is the way a capitalistic
situation always plays out:
The victim getting short sheeted twice. Once by the
infraction and once by the system that only recognizes
wealth creation and not the infractions caused by the
wealth creation or, better said, a system that puts
profits before the peoples general interests and, in
this case, health.
Rowdy Russ Hanson.
The Truth in St. Paul.
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