god Complexes

Individuals who desire to force other individuals to conform to their ideals of what is good for them, and what is not good for them, are quite possibly suffering from a god complex.  Case in point.

Has it occured to you that this is a nanny state because we need nannying? I don’t think anyone can dispute that smoking is not good for you. I read somewhere that having a smoking “section” is like having a peeing “section” in a swimming pool. It’s just not enough to have a partial ban and wait for the natural goodness of people who simply don’t know any better, to stop. They need to be forced to stop.

The above comment, was gleaned from a comment thread from a piece titled A sneer of petty disapproval posing as law which was written by Sam Leith for the Telegraph.

Jonathon Pearce, over at Samizdata, poses a question in response to the god Jasmine’s pronouncement that individuals who smoke, “need to be forced to stop."

A question I would put to this woman, and quite a few of the other control-freaks out there is this: what gives you the right to tell an adult that he or she should adjust their habits for “their own good”? Does Jasmine think of herself as being some sort of god? Has it never occurred to these people that their obsessive desire to regulate all aspects of existence is in fact a sign of a deep psychological problem, which needs to be fixed? (Bold added by ed. for emphasis)

Pearce titled his post An honest statement of arrogance found in a comment thread.

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