Government must give us its rationale for cigarette and booze ban

A friend of mine has been irked by the Disaster Management Council’s decision to ban the sale of alcohol and tobacco.

Fanon argues that the interdependence of psyches in the form of confrontations, threats, forbearances, negotiations, accommodations, control, and domination require a balance as persons and groups of persons seek to influence the conduct and shape the social being of others. This intervention is of course correct, to argue otherwise would be ludicrous. It is however also critical that this authority not be a carte blanche usage of power and be unlimited. The absence of some minimum standards and accountability requirements may lead to a wholesale abuse of power, autocratic rule and despotic behaviour on the part of rulers.

Failure to do so is to be high-handed and arrogant, but worse still, it also has the danger to sow seeds of disobedience and setting up of parallel authority based on defiance. Bearing in mind that government has a higher duty to seek to influence the conduct and shape the social being of others.

He thinks for himself and those who can afford but he doesn't think about those who share cigarettes and drink in same bottle which can be a very high risk as doing such may spread Coronavirus.

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