I imagine the argument can be made that some people would be just as offended by blasphemy around them as I would by someone lighting up around me in an enclosed space...but I've never heard of anyone's asthma being triggered by blasphemy either.
They recently banned smoking in restaurants and bars here in NC. If you want to allow smoking inside your venue, you must pay a fine. It's not fair to private business owners, who should be allowed to make the decision of whether or not they want to lose smoker business...or the business of people like me. I can't pretend it wasn't a relief that places in both Virginia (where my mother lives) and NC were enacting the rule purely for my own selfish health reasons - if I'm not in an area that gets constant air flow as someone is smoking around me, fairly soon I begin to cough and hack like a smoker myself, eventually leading to wheezing if I don't or can't move. Not to mention the stink that sinks into your clothes and hair. But I understand the need to consider the rights of business owners too, and most people go to a bar so they can drink and smoke and cut loose. I guess we whine just a little less in NC because it's rarely so cold that people mind taking it outside for five minutes.
I think that's the one reason I'd say people should blow it out their ass when it comes to blasphemy laws. People have heard things in public and private that are highly offensive, and maybe it hurts them to hear someone else saying this or that about their god...but again, no one's had to worry about blasphemy exacerbating their child's breathing conditions or it making them leave work smelling disgusting with eyes gritty and hair feeling greasy and throat scratchy.
They recently banned smoking in restaurants and bars here in NC. If you want to allow smoking inside your venue, you must pay a fine. It's not fair to private business owners, who should be allowed to make the decision of whether or not they want to lose smoker business...or the business of people like me. I can't pretend it wasn't a relief that places in both Virginia (where my mother lives) and NC were enacting the rule purely for my own selfish health reasons - if I'm not in an area that gets constant air flow as someone is smoking around me, fairly soon I begin to cough and hack like a smoker myself, eventually leading to wheezing if I don't or can't move. Not to mention the stink that sinks into your clothes and hair. But I understand the need to consider the rights of business owners too, and most people go to a bar so they can drink and smoke and cut loose. I guess we whine just a little less in NC because it's rarely so cold that people mind taking it outside for five minutes.
I think that's the one reason I'd say people should blow it out their ass when it comes to blasphemy laws. People have heard things in public and private that are highly offensive, and maybe it hurts them to hear someone else saying this or that about their god...but again, no one's had to worry about blasphemy exacerbating their child's breathing conditions or it making them leave work smelling disgusting with eyes gritty and hair feeling greasy and throat scratchy.
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