[curmudgeonII]

What's the next step in political correctness?
No drinking in bars?

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

I was thinking the same thing... by their logic, a ban on drinking in bars should be next! Imagine all the lives that would be saved! cut drunk driving accidents down by 60-75%!

[vikingcelt]

Yeah I really seriously think that all of that drinking that goes on in bars must be stopped immediately!!! I mean where's the outrage about THAT? There should be absolutely NO drinking in bars. It's harmful to your health don't ya know?

[dorothy]

You aksed, "What's the next step in political correctness? "

Well, in my town the nicotine nannies barred smoking in all public places, including bars. So we stepped outdoors to smoke. Not really surprisinging, an automatic social camaraderie spring up, and instead of huddling in solitary pariahism, we formed into clumps of smokers, often luring out nonsmokers who wanted to be where all the fun was.

Then the city nannies decided, based on the same kind of "science" that's bringing us global warming, that ordinary folks might be forced to walk through the deadly cloud of toxic second-hand smoke thus created and passed a law that you can't smoke within 20 feet of any building, excepting only a few designated patio areas.

That's our current law, but let's just say that so far no law enforcement personnel have seen fit to take on a group of potentially quite unruly smokers. And we have lost quite a number of French (if that's really a loss), Israeli and Japanese tourist groups, bad news for a "resort destination."