Religious excuse
People call for respect towards their beliefs and meanwhile sometimes for separate for prayer areas at their work places and schools. In order to avoid conflict and an image of possible cultural intolerance, as those claims can be met with Muslims more often than other religions, and someone decided somewhere that this group needs to be given everything they demand for without conditions, the lords of these institutions give them to them.
Strange thing it only is... When somebody worships a different belief called "cigarette", then they get treated like lazy slackers who search for a possibility to get a short unofficial break from work.
When your employer is a militant non-smoker too, then even rooms and places to smoke vanish from all over the property your workplace is located on.
Anti-smoker regulations even make it possible to do a manhunt on these people.
Smoking is regarded as a personal weakness.
So - what is this double standard?
When in capitalism, since when you get granted extra breaks apart from the legally ensured ones to eat or to do anything you like?
Does a smoker have to call the sucking on his glimmering stick "an act of personal worship to God" in order to get granted the same rights back like somebody who claims to follow his religious belief?
What makes religious belief so exceptionally worth to be protected and privileged these days, no matter which one it is, compared to other more pragmatic things?
Or is it already a religious conviction of some social justice warriors that shape the zeitgeist to prey upon everything that has nothing to do with religion?
Strange thing it only is... When somebody worships a different belief called "cigarette", then they get treated like lazy slackers who search for a possibility to get a short unofficial break from work.
When your employer is a militant non-smoker too, then even rooms and places to smoke vanish from all over the property your workplace is located on.
Anti-smoker regulations even make it possible to do a manhunt on these people.
Smoking is regarded as a personal weakness.
So - what is this double standard?
When in capitalism, since when you get granted extra breaks apart from the legally ensured ones to eat or to do anything you like?
Does a smoker have to call the sucking on his glimmering stick "an act of personal worship to God" in order to get granted the same rights back like somebody who claims to follow his religious belief?
What makes religious belief so exceptionally worth to be protected and privileged these days, no matter which one it is, compared to other more pragmatic things?
Or is it already a religious conviction of some social justice warriors that shape the zeitgeist to prey upon everything that has nothing to do with religion?