The prime-minister being caught smoking in an airplane (see post below), despite the laws of the country of which he is the first enforcer, and the chief of ASAE smoking in a restaurant the very first hour the law banning smoking in restaurants went into effect January 1st, show that we are trying to do our best to immitate what is going on abroad and that we are putting a brave face at it. After all, we consider everything that goes on abroad to be good and modern.
But it also shows our lack of feeling for it. Our behaviour sounds fake because the strictness (at least) of the anti-smoking laws does not belong to us. We have never been, and we are still not, that strict to sinners, be they smokers, drug-addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes, lazy people, criminals or pimps. In our Catholic tradition, we have been strict only to one class of people - those who, in public, dare to speak out their minds differently from the authority. The cardinal sin of our culture is still today to be found in words, not in actions.
But it also shows our lack of feeling for it. Our behaviour sounds fake because the strictness (at least) of the anti-smoking laws does not belong to us. We have never been, and we are still not, that strict to sinners, be they smokers, drug-addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes, lazy people, criminals or pimps. In our Catholic tradition, we have been strict only to one class of people - those who, in public, dare to speak out their minds differently from the authority. The cardinal sin of our culture is still today to be found in words, not in actions.
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