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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
Pretty much the opposite of insignificant. Different issues, same nosy authoritarianism.
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Well, it's significant to you, but you're an idealist. I see lots of shades of gray, and I don't have a problem with any of the things that you think I have in common with Dobson. It's not a particularly compelling or intimidating thing for me, so if you're expecting to play "gotcha" here you're going to be disappointed.
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With worker safety regulations... it really depends on which ones you mean. Some jobs are just more dangerous by nature. As long as dangers are made perfectly clear - now see, THAT'S where the government comes in - a lot of these regulations ARE overreaching.
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Why should the business person be forced to tell his workers about possible danger? As rational actors in a market economy the workers should be able to make the decision on their own. Why are you such a nosy authoritarian?
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Child labor laws kinda actually, y'know, do affect people personally, people who don't necessarily have the power necessary for avoiding or escaping such a situation. Not a good comparison.
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Why not? What's wrong with allowing market forces to do their thing. Clearly, if there is something wrong with child labor the consumers will vote with their dollars. In any case, nobody forces children to work in sweatshops, and for them to complain about employment opportunities just shows what obnoxious guests children can be.
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Secondhand smoke was avoidable before the bans by sticking to public property, your own property, and private property owned by like minds. That really, really, really sounds like a reasonable compromise to me. But people in favor of smoking bans - wait for this neat trick, wait for the channeling of Ann Coulter in a way that's actually 100% valid - demonstrate that they aren't reasonable people. At least when it comes to dining out.
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No, they are reasonable people, they just have different values than you. What are you, a neoatheist? Reasonable people can disagree. A reasonable person would be able to understand this distinction.
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It kills people verrry verrry slowly. If something else doesn't get them first. Like nonsmoker-induced aneurysms.
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What is it, like 400,000 a year or something?