[ale] [OT] rights and wrongs [politics] (was Re: Linux apparently illegal in MA)

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:25:37 -0400
Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:

> > It's more an overlapping rights mesh network than a hard
> > end/beginning situation. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
> > are not by definition a cause of rights conflict between
> > individuals unless on persons happiness is another persons misery.
> > At that point the non-removal of happiness should trump the
> > acquisition of happiness.  
> 
> I agree with this point, a good example is smokers.  Feel free to
> smoke, just don't make me breath your 2nd had poison.

And a better example is businesses:  If a business chooses to permit
smoking, one has the freedom to not go, or go and accept it.  If a
business doesn't choose to permit smoking, then smokers have the
freedom to not go, or go and accept it.

On one of my recent trips up north I ate at a restaurant in Michigan
where business owners still had that freedom.  It was refreshing.

But, that's all I am going to say on that topic.

	--- Mike

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