Reply #9: The "Puritans" can't control massive corpo/fascist pollution of air, water, [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

our bodies and the entire planet, so they pick on smokers. It's psychological displacement. Some of the "Puritans" are well-intentioned--that is, their real targets are corpo/fascist polluters, but they can't win against corpo/fascist power, so they sidetrack to individuals and this particular behavior as an easy target (--interesting that we haven't banned SUVs, eh?, or chemicals and GMOs in food, or clear-cutting, or toxic pesticides in Big Ag, or vast global corporate oil pollution of the oceans)--and some of the "Puritans" are just Calvinists who want to control other people, period. We have an ugly strain of Calvinism in our society, which is often exploited for huge profit, say, in anti-marijuana laws and the "war on drugs." It has also been exploited politically in our insane purity standard for politicians, who may be excellent leaders but are driven from office (or blackmailed and controlled) for having a mistress or pay a prostitute. We need to lighten up. Truly.

I'm for reasonable regulation of 2nd-hand smoke. Banning smoking everywhere is insane.