Okay, I think I see where you're coming from now. I'm still uncertain where you're going. Is it not different to be bigoted against smokers than it is against homosexuals? (I don't deny that smoking bans are bigoted against smokers. But "bigot" is a loaded word, in my opinion.)
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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