So what's the conclusion - should we ban private commission of all acts that we don't want to become public? Drunkenness? Marital sex?
Homosexual acts between consenting adults have always occurred in private but private toleration was never the goal but rather public acceptance and indeed approval.
Likewise drug use.
That's not my goal. My goal is to see respected the natural rights of adults to do in private anything that violates nobody else's rights - such as make love with their spouses, or use drugs.
the fact that alcohol is often used to impair judgment and ability leaves you with a very thin reed on which to hang your claimed distinction from other drugs - particularly when one notes that impairment was the whole purpose of alcohol use when that mind-altering drug was illegal.
Not so, not so. Wine at meals and celebrations has been a tradition long before there was a U.S. or Prohibition.
Getting drunk dates back as far - your reed remains thin.
Did you think those people suddenly headed to a speakeasy to get drunk just because of Prohibition?
No, I know they were acting on the age-old tradition of getting drunk - your reed remains thin.
No, what should be banned is the public commission of that which society might willingly tolerate when performed in private. Marital sex does not fall into this class. It is part of a contract between two persons that the state recognizes with certain rights and privileges attached not just something that is tolerated as a private vice.
The argument for toleration of private drug use pornography, homosexual acts, etc. was that is was private and therefore didn't involve anyone else rights.
That this was a false and deceptive argument is evident by the demands for toleration of those same acts in the public sphere as a right unto its self.
An example of this being the demand for public recognition and approval of so-called “gay marriage” and “medical” marijuana.
“That's not my goal. My goal is to see respected the natural rights of adults to do in private anything that violates nobody else’s rights - such as make love with their spouses, or use drugs”
Then public displays of these private acts might violate the “natural” of the public?