It goes without saying that I'll be disappointed.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
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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People should be forthright about offers they extend, lest they commit fraud by omission. Workers often won't have that inside information unless it is given to them. The very large difference here: restaurants advertising secondhand smoke aren't being deceitful. The information is already there for the taking.
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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.
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Yes, when I approve of the market directing voluntary choices, I was clearly referring also to choices not so voluntary. Consent to secondhand is rightnextto child slavery on the slippery slope.
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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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Children generally hold the weight of doing what adults tell them to do. It's not the same. It's not the voluntary situation that it would be if it involved consenting adults.
So much for those shades of gray of yours.
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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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Reasonable people would not go onto someone else's property and order them to stop smoking. That's not something that reasonable people would do.
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What is it, like 400,000 a year or something?
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I hear sunlight verry verry slowly gives you cancer, too. Funny that people still walk outdoors, you'd think that would decline over decades.