On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:42:00PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:10:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > Seriously, if a business is not accessible to someone, that person is > > free to patronize a business that is willing to cater. > > But what if none do. Until smoking in public places was banned in > Ontario, there were many places I couldn't go. period. Then it was > restraunts. fine, I have food allergies and can only eat at SwissChalet > and they are big enough that I could sit far away from the smoking > section or get takeout. But until very recently, workplaces were > allowed to be smoking if they chose. Kinda hard when I was a temp > worker saving up for UofT by doing data entry (paid a nice premium > because of speed and accuracy). > Well, I could say requiring government facilities to be accessible. However, why should *private* entities which own or lease *private* property and run *private* businesses be forced to something like that? It should be up to the individual business owner. Same as businesses which hang up a "Se habla Español" sign out front. Clearly they want to attract Spanish-speaking customers. However, if they were forced to be accessible to Spanish-speaking customers, that would be wrong, IMHO. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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