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Originally Posted by kittygilchrist
If you have severe allergies, should the world stop smelling according to you?
I feel for your pain. Can you expect the entire world to accommodate?
Sorry, as I know you suffer.
If I am offended by democrats expressing opinions, should they stop?
If I am allergic to dogs, should no one have them?
If You are my dear friend and I tell you that particular cologne you like gives me a headache? Yes, there is a reasonable request.
Please take steps to avoid public contact if you must, and know that if you demand that all people everywhere knowingly provoke your allergies, that this is...
perhaps a paranoid why-do-they-do-that-to-me perspective. No one wears a perfume in order to annoy you. They have no clue. Would your broadcast help you prevent future episodes? No.
The world is not going to adopt for its perspective as a never wear, whateverallergy is uniquely yours.
PS i have allergies, but I do not expect dogs, cats, grass, mold, dust, or people wearing perfume to stop being there.
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I sort of agree with you, but I don't have allergies, so I can't know to what extent perfume affects allergy sufferers. Therefore I don't wear it into public spaces where people are crowded together. (Church comes to mind, plus auditoriums, bus trips, and the like.) Wearing perfume is not so important to me to potentially subject others to suffering.
Otherwise, I decide how much to accommodate others based on "my rights." Maybe that's wrong, but that's where I agree with you, kitty. If it's really important to me, then all bets are off. For instance, I will not isolate my dog from public places because someone might be allergic. Nor will I isolate my pets if someone with allergies comes to the house.
And the peanut thing... On a recent flight, it was announced that nothing with peanuts would be served because there was one person on board with an allergy. One person in a plane of 250 passengers. Ridiculous. Restrict the people in his row.