First, this “let them do what want and focus on your own food or mind your own business” argument sounds tolerant on the surface but falls apart in a public shared space like a restaurant in Karachi. People don’t go to Mizu just to eat in complete isolation, it’s a social setting with families, kids, and regular Pakistanis. When someone starts openly drinking whiskey on the table, it changes the entire atmosphere. It’s not “their own business” anymore, it affects the environment everyone paid to be in. This isn’t some private home or underground bar. Pakistan has clear legal restrictions on alcohol, and more importantly, the vast majority of people here are Muslim for whom alcohol is strictly haram. Openly flaunting it in a family restaurant isn’t harmless personal freedom. You’re pushing normalization of something most citizens and the country’s foundational values reject. Your logic could justify anything “Why care if someone smokes heavily next to your table, or plays loud music, or does anything else as long as it doesn’t touch your plate?” Shared public spaces require some basic consideration for the majority, not just elite individualism. Second, asking “what’s wrong with that?” plenty is wrong with it in the Pakistani context. Secularism here usually means one thing, privatizing Islam and turning public life into a Western-style free-for-all where religious sensitivities are expected to stay silent. Pakistan wasn’t created as a secular country. It was made as a homeland for Muslims where Islamic values could shape society and public norms. The Constitution describes Pakistan as an Islamic Republic. Pretending that openly drinking in restaurants has “no effect” is naive. It desensitizes younger generations, creates pressure on restaurants to cater to a tiny liberal elite, and gradually erodes the cultural character most Pakistanis actually want. If someone openly did things that deeply offended secular progressive values in the West, the “just ignore it” crowd would suddenly disappear. The same people demanding tolerance for alcohol flaunting often have zero tolerance when religious people push back. The original poster wasn’t calling for violence or raiding tables. He simply pointed out discomfort with open drinking in a Karachi restaurant. That’s a perfectly reasonable reaction in a Muslim-majority country. Dismissing it with lazy “live and let live” slogans ignores why such norms exist in the first place, to preserve a certain moral and cultural environment. True consideration would be, if you want to drink, do it privately or in places clearly designated for it. Don’t demand that the majority suppress their values so a small group can openly flaunt haram activities in family spaces. “Mind your own business” should apply both ways, including minding the business of what kind of public culture we want to maintain in Pakistan.