Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Gadi Evron wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, der Mouse wrote:
> > > > In places with socialized medicine, deliberately ingesting potent
> > > > carcinogens *does* hurt others, eventually, even when done
> > > > privately.  (I don't know whether IL is such a place.)
> > > We are actually (if you mean government sponsored health care).
> >
> > That's the commonest form of socialized medicine, yes (and, while I'm
> > not aware of any others, I wouldn't be so rash as to state that it is
> > the only one).
> >
> > > I see your point, and raise you, define a public place.  I am with
> > > the prohibition on public places, but our terminology may vary.
> >
> > 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?

Good question.

On long distance flights, the fact that they recirculate the air, usually 
leads to me walking away with a chest infection, because their filters 
aren't as good as they need to be, and I catch someone else's disease. 
That's one of the big reasons I hate air travel - it literally makes me 
ill.

Now, if the smoke from cigarettes can be confined to the smokers, then I'm 
happy for them to smoke. Since I don't see any way this can happen, I'd 
like to exercise my right to breathe air (not smoke).


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