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I think I have explained my position to the best of my ability, so I'm more or less done here. If you don't understand why having a moral objection to individuals having moral objections is self-contradictory, I can't help you. This isn't about tu quoque fallacies because the point I am trying to prove is that people do (and should) make moral judgments about others. By pointing out that other people make moral judgments in the same way I do, I was attempting to directly advance that argument. The inapplicability of this term will become clear if you reread the acticle from which I quoted when I introduced it.
Although the group's general moral judgments towards me have been harsh, they have nonetheless reinforced my claim that everyone makes such judgments. In fact, the general concensus seems to be that moral judgments should be morally judged to be inappropriate. If nothing else, the entire situation has given me a new appreciation for irony.
Ignoring ndawg's continued, repeated attacks on my intelligence and character, I would like to clarify an earlier statement that has recently been misconstrued: When I said "I don't have to be perfect to know that what you're doing is wrong. You are a worse person because you smoke. Period." what I meant was "You are a worse person because you smoke than you would be if you did not. Period." I did NOT mean "You are a worse person than me because you smoke. Period."
You may resume your insults now.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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