Smoking ban at American University will now cover outdoors, too

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102. This argument for me has little to do with smoking.

It's about yet another overreach by the moral imprimaturs of American University to impose social-behavior and morality that they find appropriate on a society in which they are a very-small vocal morality. Any Democrat or progressive that condones that kind of overreach and conduct isn't truly any different from those on the right that attempt to impose their morality universally on the rest of society.

You see smoking, I see the same identical justifications and argumentation I get when I run into my friend from college Kate (who works for National Right-to-Life) who feels it's vital to tell me whether I really want to discuss it or not why it's imperative to well-functioning society that no woman have the right to ever have an abortion. It's bullshit no matter which side of the political divide you're on and there is no appropriate response to it other that dogmatic intransigence. Now I find myself closing in quoting that eternal enemy of the fundamentalist right and authoritarianism, Barry Goldwater:

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!