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Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken
From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:30:11 -0500 (CDT)
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, der Mouse wrote:
I'm not entirely sure where I stand on that. To me the line between public places and private places is not, in general, clear-cut.Okay, let's begin at extremes. Should smoking, if we ignore safety issues, be allowed on air planes?I see little point in trying to do this for an endless stream of example places. The real problem, to my mind, is the degree to which public smoking (FWVO "public") is socially acceptable. We are currently in an uneasy position, with public smoking in the transition from acceptable to unacceptable (in most of the West, at least). The place I would prefer we be would be for public smoking to be sufficiently uunacceptable that no laws are needed - for public smoking to draw hurled insults from almost everyone and being spat upon &c.
The masses are not always right, and I am not sure I'd like to be linched if I were a smoker. Drawing the line for government regulation is a double-edged sword, but not drawing a line... Okay.. so how do you affect change in the realm of public acceptance? _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken, (continued)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Gadi Evron (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Brian Loe (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Dude VanWinkle (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Brian Loe (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken der Mouse (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Gadi Evron (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken der Mouse (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Gadi Evron (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Drsolly (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken der Mouse (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Gadi Evron (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Brian Loe (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Brian Loe (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken David Lodge (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Drsolly (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Drsolly (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Brian Loe (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Bryan (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Richard M. Smith (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Brian Loe (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Highway safety Richard M. Smith (Oct 23)