The foot soldiers of tyranny

People who frequent pubs and who are demanding that smoking be banned have already made a value judgement about the health risk to themselves. They have decided that the risk to themselves is so low that they have continued to frequent smoky pubs probably for many years if not for decades. These people are supporting anti-smoking legislation not through any overriding health issue but because they find themselves inconvenienced. They are suggesting that it would be appropriate to seriously inconvenience other individuals because of a personal misunderstanding of their own position and a failure in their moral judgement.

History has shown us that people like this have always existed. They are easily manipulated. They will buy any line if they can see that they will get something out of it and they are often happy to damn others for their gain. They are the weak, the foolish, the useful idiots. They rely on any codec that the state can provide them with for their own moral framework.