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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I think the analogy holds up beautifully.

The man proceeds to tell the booth talkers that he's taken great pains to avoid seeing or hearing politics in his daily life, such as quickly muting political ads on TV, requesting his neighbors take down their Trump flags and local candidate election signs in their yard, and taking backroads to avoid seeing a political billboard on the way to work, all in the effort to spare their eyes the misfortune of sliding across disgusting politics. So it's perfectly reasonable that he demand to the booth talkers they cease their discussion immediately, and switch to a topic he approves of, he explains, confident in the knowledge that they will understand the pains he's gone through.

The two people in the booth glance at each other uncomfortably, wondering what terrible fate brought this demanding and oddly entitled man to their booth. Finally, one of them flashes a half-grin and spreads their hands disarmingly "Hey man, I get it that you don't like what we're discussing, but if we give in to your request, wouldn't that mean we'd have to give into any other request you have about topics? What if we were talking about sex amongst ourselves and that too wasn't acceptable since you go to efforts to avoid that topic as well? I don't think we want to live our lives beholden to your feelings on things, that's for us to decide. Have a good day."