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Originally Posted by Harmon
Naturally, I think that you are the one who doesn't get it.
You do not have a "right" to eat in a restaurant. The owner can keep you out if he doesn't like your hairdo.
Using laws to deal with what you see as selfishness, inconsideration & cluelessness reduces the moral space in which liberty exists, and subverts the role of custom and society by substituting law for for those flexible and changing informal rules which make freedom possible.
Read your last sentence. Substitute smoking or non-smoking for EBR. That's the way a free country works, and stays free.
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Again, your logic falls apart because EBRs and hairdo's do not physically harm anyone else but smoking does. Since most restaurants and other businesses would rather permit the smoking than risk losing cutomers, the laws are needed to protect the customers and employees. A customer can choose to eschew a smoking establishment but employees have less choice; jobs are not always that easy to find. Your description of liberty, custom and society suggests anarchy.