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To: TheBigIf
No where in the post YOU are responding to do I say that drug use is harmful.

Then why do you vote to make it illegal, as you said in post #37 you do?

To anger nanny state libertarians like yourself

Rather childish.

who want to trample all over my right to representation on trying to have some public decency in the community I raise my children in.

You had no response to my reply in post #30:

I have the right to represntation on issues whereas I feel the behavior of others is harmful to myself or my family.

If "what is harmful" is whatever a majority votes to be so, then those who claim to be "harmed" by you not giving them your money have won the day.

Many libertarians act as if they know better and want to deny you this right claiming that you need to have some sort of absolute proof that someones actions are directly harmful annd that all arguments that use a causation approach to showing the harm are not allowed to be used.

Libertarians are all for causation arguments - they just note that some such arguments are unfounded, for example, "some drug users harm others, therefore all drug use harms others."


123 posted on 02/10/2012 2:10:26 PM PST by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: JustSayNoToNannies

Well if you want to claim that someone’s argument is unfounded then go ahead. I support your RIGHT to do so. I believe that we ALL should have an EQUAL right to representation on what arguments are sound and which are not in the process of deterimining law and on how we view behavior as being harmful or not harmful.

It is a shame though that in reality most libertarian arguments are not that a position is unfounded. Libertarians argue that we should have no right to make law at all on issue after issue. They seek to undermine my and every person’s right to representation on issue after issue.


130 posted on 02/10/2012 2:20:22 PM PST by TheBigIf
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