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Watch in amazement as posters here, a conservative website, defend those who sell sex and vice. Speak up please and defend morality! If we can shame people into not smoking, we ought to be able to return the opprobrium once associated with vice and push it back into the cesspools and away from decent people.
Yeah, right The number of Americans who smoke has dropped in the past few years because "we" shamed them into quitting that nasty habit.
You don't think smoking bans and high taxes on cigarettes might have had something to do with it?
There is a subset of "conservative" thought that insists everyone comply with their particular, mostly puritanical standards of conduct -- or else. These people won't settle for moral suasion, or "shaming" the miscreants into behaving as prescribed by the mullahs of morality. No, that's too much work for too little satisfaction.
Rather, like the prohibitionists of old, they would enact laws to prohibit what they find offensive, such as smoking in public. And strip clubs. And the list goes on.