Slippery Slope

I am a firm believer in the slippery slope argument. I said it when the government first started targeting smokers. I don't smoke, never have, except on one or two occasions when I was drinking at a party, but that is a story for another time. But I knew that regulating smokers would lead to unreasonable constraints on the rest of us. Anytime the government starts regulating something, even if it seems at the time to be perfectly reasonable, sooner or later it leads to regulatory abuse. It is just the nature of governments.