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To: ek_hornbeck; Responsibility2nd; DJ MacWoW; little jeremiah; Coleus; narses; TheOldLady; xzins; ...
I'm a libertarian on most issues (but can't abide the Libertarian Party for their views on immigration), and I disagree with Singer on almost everything, except on euthanasia.

Do you also agree with the libertarians on abortion, homosexuality and drugs?

Whose life is it anyone, yours or the government's?

Life is a God-given unalienable right, but it is not a possession that we can give away.

What business does the government have telling people they have to go on living a life that they consider worthless because they're incapacitated (or, in the case of this article, permanently incarcerated)?

The right to life DOES NOT include the right to die. We don't have a claim on death, death has a claim on us.

And try not to forget that the euthanasia movement is about far more than voluntary death, they have no qualms about deciding who should and shouldn't live.

57 posted on 08/20/2014 8:24:42 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
Do you also agree with the libertarians on abortion, homosexuality and drugs?

I think that Roe v. Wade should be overturned as unconstitutional and the legality of abortion left up to the states, as the 10th amendment to the Constitution requires.

I oppose the absurd concept of homosexual "marriage" and oppose any special protected victim class status for homosexuals (as I oppose them for racial "minorities").

As for drugs, the government had the sense to give up on Prohibition in 1933, recognizing that a ban on alcohol only made gangsters rich and our streets more violent, and that legalizing alcohol was a lesser evil than declaring war on it. Now, please explain why you war on drug advocates defend certain classes of drugs and drug users (alcohol and nicotine) while criminalizing others. Any argument you make about the social or medical ill effects of illicit drugs apply equally well to alcohol, so in the name of consistency, you should either advocate a return to prohibition or acknowledge the hypocrisy of the war on (certain) drugs.

59 posted on 08/20/2014 8:39:27 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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