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Actualy I do own a business. Why would a non smoker go to a smoking room if he can go to a non smoking hotel accross the street? Same with restaurants and bars.
ever been to a city where there is a large convention in town? there are times when there is just no choice and you have to take what room is available, or move on to the next city.
ever been to a city where there is a large convention in town? there are times when there is just no choice and you have to take what room is available, or move on to the next city.
At the end of the day, they do have a choice. As you said, they can move on to the next city. Or they can forgo attending the convention at all and go back home. There are a lot of things that someone may not like about a certain hotel. Should we regulate all of those things for those times when people have "no choice" and "have to take what room is available"?
ever been to a city where there is a large convention in town? there are times when there is just no choice and you have to take what room is available, or move on to the next city.
Exactly! I've also been in small towns in the midwest where there was only one motel, and the next town was miles away. It's not always as simple as going to the motel across the street.
Lets take this thread to a whole new level.
What if the issue was gay sex. Does the gvmt have a right to tell a hotel owner that he cannot rent a room to 2 people that want to have gay sex?
Lets take this thread to a whole new level.
What if the issue was gay sex. Does the gvmt have a right to tell a hotel owner that he cannot rent a room to 2 people that want to have gay sex?
This isn't a new level, it's a red herring argument.
Why? Its telling a business owner what to do. I see it as no different. For a minute their I was going to congradulate you for taking the challenge. Apperently you refused to.
Why? Its telling a business owner what to do. I see it as no different. For a minute their I was going to congradulate you for taking the challenge. Apperently you refused to.
This is why I generally stay out of such threads. They get personal and nasty. If you don't understand the difference between gay sex and smoking, I'm not going to get into a discussion with you.
They are right - smoking is terrible for you and secondhand smoke is pretty bad as well. That's why it's so hard to argue with them. What they seem to miss is that this isn't about smoking at all but about freedom and about the ability to make decisions for ourselves. They're really saying that they are scared of freedom and of having to make their own choices.
No it doesn't. They just rant on and on not realizing that they are exposing themselves for anti freedom hypocrites that they are. Because "freedom" only applies to their wants and needs. The market won't provide them a service they want, so they use the government to force others to provide that service. After all, it's not tyrannical or anything, because they agree with it!
If I want to pay a guy a hundred bucks to smoke in a room, and he wants to sell me the room, no one has the right to tell us that we can't engage in a transaction. Period.
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