Posted on 08/25/2006 6:26:19 AM PDT by cryptical
Maybe it has. But, right or wrong, those people made the choice to engage in illegal behavior. They knew the risk.
That's the question, -- do we have to obey the 'law' --- "right or wrong"?
We took that risk back in 1776, and answered no... -- Now here we are again, arguing that same question with another gov't out of control.
The answer remains the same, -- laws repugnant to the Constitution are null & void from enactment.
The answer remains the same, -- laws repugnant to the Constitution are null & void from enactment.
That's all well and good, but don't then whine about peoples' lives being ruined because they're in jail.
That's all well and good, but don't then whine about peoples' lives being ruined because they're in jail.
You 'whined' irrationally back at #74:
Yeah, just think of the millions of lives that could have been saved if only pot wasn't banned.
I then commented:
Do you really think putting millions of people in prison for pot over the last 40 years hasn't ruined more than a few lives?
Try to keep up with your own empty rhetoric.
Well, I have. You're trying to equate the plight of drug users/dealers who consciously decide to flaunt the law and end up in jail or dead for their mistakes with the plight of the millions of entirely innocent victims of malaria, who could have been saved if DDT weren't banned.
The two situations are entirely different, and it's a small mind indeed that will not or cannot appreciate the difference.
People in jail for drugs had a choice in the matter. That makes all the difference in the world. Your moral equivalence argument just won't fly.
Interesting
Most people I meet who want to kill their babies are also the ones who want to do drugs. In fact I never met a pro-abort who didn't want to legalize pot.
Huh? Most people I've met who eat lots of cheese tend to smell bad. I do not believe this is true for all cheese eaters. And besides, isn't it possible for someone to be wrong about one thing and right about the other?
I haven't smoked pot in a while (I prefer the greater psychedelics) but I've always been amused by drug war propaganda. I love all the old vintage reefer madness stuff, but I was happy to stumble across a modern day episode of the particular comedy/horror that is the drug war mindset:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-RS8Hi2my4
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