amethyst:

I was on such a flight recently too, and I was hungry, and the only thing I had in my bag was a peanut butter breakfast bar I had been looking forward to. And I lived.

let me get this straight. you couldn't have peanuts because there was an allergic person on the flight. you say that peanut dust in an airplane with recycled air could potentially be dangerous to an allergic person. and then you ate your peanut butter breakfast bar. because that would have been better than eating peanuts how exactly?

My point was that I didn't eat the peanut butter bar :). I just stayed hungry for the 2 hour flight. I'd rather just be hungry than kill someone.

i'm sorry. but the last thing we need in this country is more laws. we're close enough to becoming a puritanical police state as it is. Sure that's a bit of hyperbole, but I wish it were moreso. We tell people what they can and can't wear, what they can and can't put in their bodies, how fast they can drive, which drugs they are allowed and how much, where they can drink and not drink, etc...

enough with the laws already. the world's never going to be exactly the way you want it because everyone has a different perspective on how things SHOULD be. we should stop trying to legislate from our small worldviews and instead just deal with the fact that we live in a heterogeneous culture and not a homogenous one. and thank god for that, i say.

The problem is that in me first culture the assholes feel they can do whatever they want, and laws are here to stop you from acting on your god given "right" to do whatever makes you happy irregardless of how many people you make unhappy in the process. I tend to believe in the idea of a happiness equation. If the thing that makes 30 people happy upsets 500 people, the 30 people should go make their own society where that thing is allowed and leave the rest of us alone.