The degree of rigorism that our supposedly liberal politicians and bureaucrats are capable of when it comes to noble goals such as protecting health or saving us from the supposedly impending climate apocalypse is nothing short of astonishing. Increasingly, the impression arises of a puritanical-religious fanaticism that, while pursuing purely this-worldly ideas of salvation, is nevertheless to be imposed on society as a whole – and on every individual without exception
The latest example is that the EU now even wants to ban smoking outdoors so that nobody, absolutely nobody, is harmed by passive smoking. In the UK, a lifelong smoking ban for anyone born after 1 January 2009 is being discussed. Continue reading “The Public Health bigotry and its blind spots”











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