From: idasan-AT-pseud.pseud
Subject: Re: M-INTRO: M-Intro: Smoking
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:07:28 -0700


That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.  If someone is smoking on 
the same park bench that I am sitting on - polluting MY air, I would 
absolutely ask him or her to move.  Especially when I was pregnant and now 
that I am nursing my baby, I am particularly sensitive to smoke.  Obviously, 
I don't go to bars or other places that will have smokers but I do expect 
the air I breathe (especially outside on a park bench) to be breathable.  If 
I read it right - because of my preference for clean air I am not taking on 
any responsibility?  I'm not the one polluting the air within twenty feet in 
all directions creating a biohazard for myself and anyone I come in contact 
with.  Exactly what responsibility should a non-smoker take?  I'm not asking 
anyone to change - go ahead and smoke.  But the fact that smoking is 
dangerous to others (such as nursing mothers and children) is precisely the 
reason it should not be done in public.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Nabo-AT-pseud.pseud>
To: <marxism-intro-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: M-INTRO: M-Intro: Smoking


>
> People talk about this social responsibilty. But the talk about this 
> social responsibilty as a one-way road. I agree that a smoker has a level 
> of responsibilty to not smoke in a building or within 25 feet of one. I 
> guess if you were on a bench and they sat next to you, yeah, it is common 
> courtesy to ask if you mind or not. But what about your responsibility? 
> Can't you take the higher road and politely ask them to not smoke, or 
> change a bench. This can be awkward, but it is more important to me to be 
> happy. I would take the inconvenience of walking to a different bench and 
> being happy than to have this anger fester inside of me.
> It is too easy and too common in America to demand others to change. We 
> need to take some responsibility upon ourselves.
> OK, I am done soapboxing.
>
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