The Demands Of The Few Versus Rights Of the Many
20/06/2009 05:03
I read with interest
a letter in the Wednesday Gazette from a local
mother calling upon the St. Albert Chamber of
Commerce to make the Farmer’s Market both an
indoor event and a nut free event at
that.
( You can tell
which letter easily. It’s the one where she
starts out complaining how the “July” sun at
the first Farmers Market in June burned her
child from lack of shade. How that one got by
the letters editor is anyone’s guess, but I
digress.)
Pardon me? Here we go again with a person with a child with a single allergy wanting the rest of the world to change due to her issues.
When will people who have children with allergies stop preying upon the rest of us to change our ways? It’s their problem, not ours and if anyone should change, it should be themselves to protect their child.
In short if you don’t like what is going on at a public event, stay the hell away from the event instead of trying to make thousands of others dance to your particular tune.
It is neither reasonable nor in many cases even possible for any group or organization to ensure there will be no nuts at a given function. I mean gimme a break folks. Any kid could have a chocolate bar, candies or whatever in his pocket with nuts as part of the content.
To hold us all hostage to an individual problem is just wrong and I for one am tired of the demands of the few that inconvenience thousands of us.
Remember it was one mother and child who held 60,000 seats hostage in Commonwealth stadium to ban peanuts, a tradition at outdoor games. Enough already.
And as for making it an indoor event, this site has long advocated removing the market from downtown and putting it in $ervu$ Place where there is parking available. It makes nothing but sense, but we seem to be in short supply of that particular commodity in St. Albert lately.
*End rant*
Pardon me? Here we go again with a person with a child with a single allergy wanting the rest of the world to change due to her issues.
When will people who have children with allergies stop preying upon the rest of us to change our ways? It’s their problem, not ours and if anyone should change, it should be themselves to protect their child.
In short if you don’t like what is going on at a public event, stay the hell away from the event instead of trying to make thousands of others dance to your particular tune.
It is neither reasonable nor in many cases even possible for any group or organization to ensure there will be no nuts at a given function. I mean gimme a break folks. Any kid could have a chocolate bar, candies or whatever in his pocket with nuts as part of the content.
To hold us all hostage to an individual problem is just wrong and I for one am tired of the demands of the few that inconvenience thousands of us.
Remember it was one mother and child who held 60,000 seats hostage in Commonwealth stadium to ban peanuts, a tradition at outdoor games. Enough already.
And as for making it an indoor event, this site has long advocated removing the market from downtown and putting it in $ervu$ Place where there is parking available. It makes nothing but sense, but we seem to be in short supply of that particular commodity in St. Albert lately.
*End rant*
