It's disgusting. I've been fighting their tobacco ban and plan on fighting their good food ban when it hits.
They don't understand it's about freedom and that I have the right to smoke if I'm away from those that might be bothered by it, even if it just makes their panties get in a tight knot.
“They don’t understand it’s about freedom and that I have the right to smoke if I’m away from those that might be bothered by it, even if it just makes their panties get in a tight knot.”
That’s the key. They have let their emotions get in the way. When government or NGO’s start spewing “facts” they get all uptight and believe they are doing good.
But, my favorite quote says it all.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C.S. Lewis