"#1. You didn't read the entire thread. This is not a liberal vs. conservative issue. I am a STAUNCH conservative who is in favor of anti-smoking laws because they protect the rights of the many (just like most of our laws) against the whims of the few."
What "rights" are being protected? Are those rights worthy of the confiscation of private property? If you are so supportive of government interference (confiscation) of private property use, then I have to wonder how "staunch" you really are.
Protection of private property and individual liberty means that sometimes, some people will chose to engage in behavior with which you may not agree.
Like you I have a very hard time with folks who refuse to differentiate between public and private property.
DMV is a public place. Joe's Bar & Grill is a private busines establishment that invites the public in. If you drive or own a vehicle you are FORCED to deal with DMV to remain within the law. You are never FORCED to enter Joe's place of business.
Regarding this woman - the anti smokers have gotten out of control - one of the anti-smoker websites offers information (for a fee) to help divorced couples get anti-smoker language into custody agreements. It would not surprise me if that is where this idiotic condition of the custody agreement came from.
However, as idiotic as I believe it is, the woman did defy a court order and that was wrong........but throwing her in jail for 10 days is even worse.
Protection of private property and individual liberty means that sometimes, some people will chose to engage in behavior with which you may not agree.
I am a STAUNCH conservative who is in favor of anti-smoking laws because they protect the rights of the many (just like most of our laws) against the whims of the few."
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Yeah and Germany thought the Jews were a plague on the earth too and made laws to justify eraticating them. I have never seen the like in my 50 yrs. of people being such controling, nosey, busy body, run everyone elses life a**holes. I would LOVE to have a set of bathroom scales sitting in this forum for all the anti-smokers. Because the obesity rate is far far exceeding the smokers. So while the majority of the population panics over a tiny whiff of smoke they are cramming their faces with what ever is not nailed down and none it good for them, and all the while pointing a pudgy little diabetic, high blood pressure, disease ridden
finger at a smoker who usually does not have any of those problems. One might say I am fed up.