Yeah, but aren't you from a progressive part of the world? Restrictive legislation almost never works, for whatever purpose it's being employed; proactive policy change does work. I keep wanting to tell people who complain about the homeless: it's very simple, if you don't want homeless people in your town/libraries/on your streets, then enact policies that make it very difficult for people to become homeless because you've made sure they have homes. This is obviously not directed solely at you but at the world in general, and is a gloss on why I got into policy studies in the first place.

That's my problem with the response you linked to: yeah, libraries and library patrons shouldn't be subjected to things which inhibit their library experience. On the other hand, people shouldn't be subjected to things which inhibit their humanity.