Posted on 04/16/2014 8:57:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
All law making is a moral activity. All laws are an expression of some underlying moral imperative.
What next? Legalized prostitution?
Short answer: yes.
Because Lee - like 99% of people - only believes in states' rights when it benefits issues he likes (assuming he truly believes in the concept at all).
I can’t decide if this article is an attack against Republicans or Tea Partiers.
Probably both since it has a libertarian smell to it.
This is crap.
the unprincibled are the ones asking
I think marijuana decriminalization is a smart compromise vs legalization. It wouldn’t really change anything much because few people if any go to jail for possession anyway but lots of taxpayer dollars are wasted prosecuting it.
Decriminalization vs legalization won’t lead to growth of government because a small fine for getting caught is better than paying a tax every time.
It is legal in Nevada.
I think potheads are pathetic, but that’s a completely different matter than whether or not I think they should be crushed by the federal government. Justice Thomas made the right call in Gonzales v. Raich.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich#Dissenting_opinions
In a federalist system, we permit other states and people to decide how they want to live even if we disagree with them. For one thing, that means we can live together peacefully as one nation. For another, it means the states are free to experiment and maybe prove or disprove the value of a given policy, like the legalization of marijuana.
They are certainly not federalists. One could argue they also do not value the Constitution...which is, ultimately, a federal documents which leaves such decisions to the states, and the People, respectively.
Two generations of Americans will need to eventually relearn the old lesson that state power kills people who get in its way. Only then will a credible opposition emerge - but they won't have neat haircuts and expensive suits and polite manners.
On the federal level prostitution is legal; it’s just banned by most states.
Correct. We better get the the do-gooders to fix that right away! Hell, even WHISKEY is legal in all 50 states! They need to fix that too.
Go back to being for smaller government and a stronger economy, and most people won’t care about the social issues.
How about letting the states decide matters of criminal law, whether it’s about pot, prostitution or poker? It worked pretty well back in the 19th century.
“...and that view is especially common among young voters.”
Gee, the same group that favors anal sex, abortion, and taxing the rich at 100%.
True. What’s that have to do with adults smoking pot?
This is the part that makes me reject libertarianism as a thoughtful philosophy. I believe in individual liberty, but don’t we have enough proof that permissive laws or legalization of what had once been immoral didn’t improve human life?
Prostitution legalization didn’t end the white slave trade or alter the mentality of pimps and prostitutes. Legal or illegal it still draws the same lost souls.
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