Monkeyleg
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After going 'round with Pax, Nualle, and others over on a TFL thread about smoking, I'd wanted to do a thread expanding upon the direction we were taking. Unfortunately, the timing of TFL's closing didn't allow for it. Now, here on THR, there's been a couple of threads about smoking laws that have generated some intense debate.
If the moderators will permit, I'd like to get opinions on how far as a society we should go to accomodate the physical problems of others, especially when those problems are found in just a tiny minority of the population. Ideally, we shouldn't even mention tobacco, since doing so would merely turn this into another smoking thread. (yawn).
Pax has a severe asthmatic condition that makes her vulnerable to things she breathes. Similarly, my niece has almost fatal reactions to peanut oil (which is present in more prepared foods than most realize).
Should we legislate the use of products sold or available to the majority based upon the reactions to said products by a distinct minority? For example, should restaurants be required to disclose in large lettering on their menus that such-and-such a dish contains peanut oil? Or, for that matter, MSG?
My father (age 86) has a hearing problem that makes him more sensitive to certain ranges of the audible spectrum than others. People talking in certain pitches makes him more even more irritable than he usually is. Should we somehow try to accomodate his condition, or should he accomodate himself to the rest of society by leaving the area when someone's voice upsets him?
Opinions, please.
If the moderators will permit, I'd like to get opinions on how far as a society we should go to accomodate the physical problems of others, especially when those problems are found in just a tiny minority of the population. Ideally, we shouldn't even mention tobacco, since doing so would merely turn this into another smoking thread. (yawn).
Pax has a severe asthmatic condition that makes her vulnerable to things she breathes. Similarly, my niece has almost fatal reactions to peanut oil (which is present in more prepared foods than most realize).
Should we legislate the use of products sold or available to the majority based upon the reactions to said products by a distinct minority? For example, should restaurants be required to disclose in large lettering on their menus that such-and-such a dish contains peanut oil? Or, for that matter, MSG?
My father (age 86) has a hearing problem that makes him more sensitive to certain ranges of the audible spectrum than others. People talking in certain pitches makes him more even more irritable than he usually is. Should we somehow try to accomodate his condition, or should he accomodate himself to the rest of society by leaving the area when someone's voice upsets him?
Opinions, please.