“Let people smoke, drink and eat red meat - Norwegian health minister” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48190197
諾威の新任の衛生大臣Sylvi Listhaug女史の発言が波紋を呼んでいるのだという。
別に間違ったことは言っていないと思う。彼女の政治的なスタンスは右翼ポピュリズムということだけど*1、ここで述べられていることから想起されるのは、勝義におけるリベラル或いは自由主義に近いのではないだろうか。要するに、長谷川豊*2ではないということ。
"My starting point for this with public health is very simple. I do not plan to be the moral police, and will not tell people how to live their lives, but I intend to help people get information that forms the basis for making choices," she told Norwegian broadcaster NRK in an interview on Monday."People should be allowed to smoke, drink and eat as much red meat as much as they want. The authorities may like to inform, but people know pretty much what is healthy and what is not healthy, I think."
Smokers were made to feel like pariahs, Ms Listhaug, herself a former smoker, added.
"I think many smokers feel like pariahs. So they almost feel they have to hide away, and I think that's stupid. Although smoking is not good, because it is harmful, adults have to decide for themselves what they do.
"The only thing we as governments are to do is to provide information so that people can make informed choices. That is why we should, among other things, [devise] a tobacco strategy now, which will help prevent young people from starting to smoke and often want to make more adults quit."
*1:右翼なのに「進歩党」というのもよくわからないけど。
*2:Seea lso https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20141011/1412998271 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160923/1474654130 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160924/1474727838 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160925/1474821301 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20161002/1475371684 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20170207/1486435801 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20170208/1486522026
