Another one o' them smoking ban threads....

[IsiliRunite]

Originally Posted by Strangelet

Again, a glaring self contradiction. You can't call it humane to enforce a criteria for discrimination based on your own personal definition of what is acting in one's self-interest and inhumane if a government program did the same thing.

A government programme cannot judge people on intangibles [nobody can decide what "good health" is] or certain aspects of their being they cannot control [genetics or race], legally, especially when it comes down to life or death. As people, we do it all the time... you all go to parties and choose not to have sex with the fat chicks!

That is not a contradiction, that is a dichotomy.