If it's legal to hold a conversation with somebody (say, in a restaurant or
on a plane), why should it be *illegal* to hold a phone conversation?

Inconsiderate behavior is simply inconsiderate behavior. Legislating or
regulating when you are allowed to speak loudly and otherwise behave
inconsiderate of others around you is doomed to failure - and is indicative
of a country I would not want to live in.

Just because you don't have the spine to ask a loud talker to speak lower
doesn't mean that loud talker should be barred from talking loudly.

Further, I think you do a great disservice to the professionalism of pilots
and crew to suggest that simply having the ability to use a cell phone means
they will be used - much less to the detriment of passenger safety.

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John T
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