Richard Miniter has a good post today about Left-Wing control freaks. The locales where they congregate are the most oppressive Big Government ghettos. Their Smoking bans, Trans Fat bans, enviro-fascism, and all the tsk, tsking over anything and everything the intolerant, handwringing left finds offensive are an offense to Liberty.
They are the drips and squares of society; the kind of uptight, humorless downers that I and other positive and productive people go out of our way to avoid:
"Now L.A. and a host of other cities (some disturbingly east of the
earthquake zone) are considering outdoor smoking bans. They have already banned
smoking in offices, eateries, bars and beaches. Outdoors is next. Followed by a
ban on smoking in your private car.
What is behind this Puritan impulse? Public health, you say. Well, that
is what they always say. Witches were problems of moral health (the witches, not
the witch hunters’, mind you) and alcohol was destructive to mind, body and
society. Of course smoking and eating excessively can have negative health
consequences. But Puritans have to morals of slaughterhouse operators: they want
the cows to go to their deaths perfectly healthy. What does it matter if they
were bored?
...At the metaphysical level, these debates could go on forever. But on the
practical level, the solution is simple: the owner of the property makes the
rules. When government became unlimited and this simple understanding
of private property was lost, the stage for social civil war was set. As
usual, the Puritans are the aggressors. In the name of peace, the rest of us
keep surrendering. At some point, enough people will realize they have run out
of room.
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