it's called free markets and choices

[threeplusfire]

Thank you, you assholes who feel everyone must be healthy even if they choose not to be so!

I'd like to point out that you have a choice, and you're waving that fucking "right" of yours around like a damned flag when it isn't a right at all. It's a choice and you are taking mine away.

I'm so angry about the thought that a fine local business that has been so central my life for nearly a decade now might be forced to close because idiots think legal adults can't make choices of their own. I love Metro, with the uncomfortable chairs and the sometimes surly staff and the endless black coffee. I'm nearly in tears thinking about those worn brick walls where I have rested my head, the glasses and their heft in my hand. This is place where I have been with every person I have ever dated. I grew up in here. I broke up with people in here, I fell in love in here, I sometimes did my homework here, I wrote here, I spent time with my friends.

But you and your fucking self righteous health culture agenda want to force them out of business by not allowing adults to make their own god damned decisions. The first person who comes up to me and chirps about how great it is to not have the smoke around will get a broken bloody nose.

There are so many coffee shops where you can't smoke. Why do you have to take mine away?

Comments

[warhol.livejournal.com]

Why might Metro have to shut down? Is it being forced on them, or is it the result of anti-smoking rules driving away their business?

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

As I understand without some drastic shuffling and remodelling, they can't continue to stay open and allow people to smoke. I don't think Doug can afford that, and he certainly can't afford the rent if his patrons are driven away. :(

[alainn-sorcha.livejournal.com]

*comforts*

I'm so upset. I can't even imagine how upset you are.

Fucking nutbars.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

It's just such an awful thing.