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Originally Posted by Adept Havelock
I'm pretty sure everyone (other than a subsistence farmer) makes their lving off the "public", ultimately. Even a congresscritter, by virtue of taxing the "public".
I think they should be empowered to decide for themselves if they want to permit a legal activity (consumption of tobacco) within their own business. I'm pretty sure I made that clear somewhere in this thread. Pity you missed it.
BTW- Who gets to establish that "code of conduct"? Smokers? |
Well, I guess somebody has to decide which road we're going to take. And that is what our representative government is for. So, we the people, can facilitate our collective will. Environmental regulations are the result of our collective will.
It sounds to me like you're buying into the whole government is evil schtick. When government is being corrupted by greedy commercial forces, it can be evil. But, our government was set up by our founding fathers to work in favor of the popular will. In other words, to represent the will of the people. Unfortunately that purpose has been corrupted.
The only thing those interests would like more than corrupting the peoples government is to get rid of it entirely. Then they would have a free hand without any interferrence. Our only redress would be armed rebellion. That's not what I want. I'd prefer a people's government that isn't rife with corruption.
Codes of Conduct are nothing more than regulations. There is nothing wrong with regulations because regulation is derived at via the will of the people. There is nothing wrong with codes of conduct, IMO.