Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Tyranny

Don't know about anyone else, but this sounds exactly like "tyranny of the majority" to me.

From AP Report:

"They reminded the group that the new policy was formed, in part, after a campus survey found 30 percent favored forcing smokers to the parking lots while an equal percentage wanted smoking completely banned."

Mind you, I do not smoke and avoid it as much as possible but...

To quote from Bob Heinlein (in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"):

"Rules--laws--always for the OTHER fellow...there is no worse tyranny than to force a man to do what he does not want to do merely because YOU think it would be good for him."

Does that make me a libertarian? Well, an Orthodox Libertarian, perhaps. With a good leavening of the conservative.

No wonder I'm so loopy...

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