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Quote by: Imudman See, that's my problem with this issue, and about a hundred more issues. Everyone wants to control everyone else's behaviour in trivial things. Why should I care if you choose to eat 20 Whoppers a day? I shouldn't have to go into a public place and be subjected to dozens of half-starved human beings stuffing themselves dead animal sandwiches. And, Oh! the smell makes me retch...  |
Because if someone eats 20 Whoppers a day, it only affects them. If someone drinks 10 bottles of vodka, their liver is the only one that gets killed (assuming they don't drive, of course). But if you smoke, everyone around you smokes. You don't just do damage to yourself, you spread the damage around to everyone in the vicinity.
You can whine about rights all you want, but your rights end when they start to affect other people and people defending 'property rights' don't seem to give a damn about anyone else but themselves.