Re: Hugo Shortlist 2008 (Sawyer)

John Schilling wrote:

> 
> Really?  So if I go out and rant about how, say, smokers are evil 
> bastards who ought to be isolated from decent people, every last one
> of them, just for being somkers, that's going to be frowned on?
> 
> 

	Certainly would be.

	I've never heard any such arguments espoused in public.

	Of course, you MAY be trying to distort public anti-smoking 
campaigns, which don't say anything even vaguely like what you're 
saying, but that would be distortion, not truth. Anti-smoking 
campaigns basically say "smoking is bad for everyone's health, and you 
really should stop doing it; and if you insist on doing it, you should 
not expose anyone else to it who is unwilling to be so exposed, 
because that will imperil their health as well". This is basically the 
same logic as exists in drunken driving laws. You shouldn't be 
drinking so much as to impair your function, but that's your choice; 
once you get behind the wheel of a car and you're drunk, you're a 
menace to others, and THAT is why it's illegal.




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