“By the way, i’ve read that people receiving government benefits now exceeds the population of citizens paying taxes. No worries there.A lot of people see the world as simple. I see it as a series of very complex interacting and often non-linear models. Sometimes you pull out or add a piece here and there, and the consequences end up being a LOT different from what you thought would happen.”
Not sure what this has to do with the pot laws, unless it’s like I suspect and the pot issue is a moral issue for you and you’re equating pot use with welfare abuse.
I don’t smoke pot. I’ve tried it of course but never developed a taste for it. Oddly enough I get hassled by LEOs way more than my share. I do have long hair and as I was told by one LEO after being searched and having the dog sniff all around my car “Well, I Can’t find it, but I know you have to have some dope in here somewhere.”
You seem to be doing that same sort of thing.
You know dope is bad. In your earlier posts to me you were lumping grass in with heroin and meth. Here you seem to be trying to make a case that pot causes people to be on welfare.
As far as seeing the world as simple or complex.
You seem to be painting a pretty large and diverse group with a very broad and limited brush.
You also seem to be making it more complex than it really is to support your position that weed is bad so there should be a law.
My grandmother hated Rock & roll and insisted til the day she died that it corrupted kids. Got them to drink and take drugs and and grow their hair long. In other words engage in behavior she didn’t approve of.
She used to always say she wished they’d outlaw it.
Not sure what this has to do with the pot laws, unless it’s like I suspect and the pot issue is a moral issue for you and you’re equating pot use with welfare abuse.
There is certainly a lot of overlap between pot users and welfare at the bottom end of the scale.
You also seem to be making it more complex than it really is to support your position that weed is bad so there should be a law.
I'm saying that the philosophical arguments which justify it's legalization do not restrict themselves to just pot. If you embrace those arguments (that smoking it is a right) you open Pandora box to all the rest as well.
You may think you are pulling down one small Chesterton fence.(pot) You are not. You are pulling down a very large and important Chesterton fence (all other drugs) because it is attached to that small one.