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The smoking ban was just the start...

Former Member · 2008-12-11 21:55:52

Next - no cigarettes on display. In a year or so perhaps, no smoking outside? Labour have wrecked the economy, the pound is becoming worthless - if only smokers didn't have an addiction stopping them from putting the final nail in Britain's economy... :p Praise to the tobacco smugglers though, smokers are treated like…

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Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

December 2008

Aladdin wrote: »

That's not a fair comparison though. The sight of obese people eating is not going to damage your health and seriously inconvenience you. At the most it might displease you and make your eating experience less pleasurable... but to be fair you'd have to be a bit of a bastard if the very sight of fat people disturbed you so.

I think SG's argument, as far as i see it, was that citing the inconvenience to group X doesn't hold any water when it comes to ascertaining the validity of any action against them - though I understand his point wasn't necessarily well put across.

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