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   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 16:25:01 +0100, Catja Pafort   
    wrote in   
      
   in rec.arts.sf.misc:   
      
   > Helen Hall wrote:   
      
   >> The example I thought of belatedly was smoking, back in   
   >> the time when smoking was the norm and non-smokers were   
   >> considered weird. Should A (a smoker) not smoke because   
   >> B (a non-smoker) complains that he hates the smell? Or   
   >> should A consider that B is being too fussy?   
      
   > A isn't going to be hurt by not smoking. B is going to be hurt if A   
   > smokes. My take on it is that A should cease smoking.   
      
   Helen specified 'back in the time when smoking was the   
   norm', so A might well have disputed both of your   
   assertions: in his view not smoking was going to drive him   
   frantic, and smoking wasn't actually going to harm B.   
   (Remember, B's complaint was that he disliked the smell, not   
   that he was asthmatic or what have you.)  I'm with Gray on   
   this one.  (And I've been on both sides of the smoking   
   divide: I was a fairly heavy pipe smoker for about 15 years,   
   then quit cold about 25 years ago.)   
      
   [...]   
      
   Brian   
      
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