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		icebraining on Oct 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: More Cities Are Making It Illegal to Hand Out Food... So you agree that if that precondition was fulfilled, banning food handouts to homeless people would be as permissible as banning businesses from allowing smoking inside?

Klinky on Oct 25, 2014 [–]

No. Second-hand smoke is easily provable to be detrimental to public health. Giving food to a homeless person is not.

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