…is that it runs in the face of logic - normal, common sense logic. Witness this:
Starting July 1, marijuana will be the only leaf that can be smoked in public places in the Netherlands. … Puffing a pure marijuana cigarette in public will still be permitted; smoking one with tobacco will merit coffee shop owners a $466 fine.
It’ quite obvious how they arrived at this sort of stupidity, and it illustrates how bad laws lead to worse laws. This is what you get:
(Smoking = Bad) + (Wrongly persecuting pot smokers = Bad) = Laws that allow pot smoking in public, but not tobacco.
There really isn’t much more to add to this, but at least it allowed me to create a new category called TPWL (The Problems With Liberalism) for stories like this. I suspect the majority of my examples will come from Europe as they seem to excel in this sort of nonsensical asshattery, but it will be interesting to watch.
h/t: Wizbang