It seems you’re seriously advancing the idea that banning straws is bad… “because the disabled?”

What percentage of straws do you think go to people who need them because they are disabled? 1%? Less?

The next problem would be that are currently no good replacements for plastic straws.

Reusable metal straws have been around for centuries in places like Morocco. You clearly didn’t look very hard — Ikea sells them.

More — there’s no law requiring restaurants to have straws today, so if you rely on a straw to eat, you should probably be carrying one around anyway.

Humanity has to get away as soon as possible from using disposable items for any purpose whatsoever. That includes disposable straws, even if you are disabled.

It’s unfortunate, because I do agree with your basic thesis, “Snap judgements are too common and lead to bad results.” I even agree that the straw bans, while actually useful, are pretty small beans. But such things are a small step in the right direction.

Banning disposable straws is completely right. That we need more than that doesn’t make it wrong.