I have a nine year-old who likely has far better self-control and more common sense than the lot of adult pro-dope libertarians who post here.
Snivelling freeloaders.
Before making such accusations, I would suggest you back them up? Snivelling freeloaders? How so? I will call you on your idiotic assertions, so be prepared to back them up, won't you? The question here is: Who is and isn't allowed to rule your life? How do you define common sense? Someone who adheres to your narrow and "moral" views of what is right? The libertarian philosophy is live and let live. Conservative philosophy as it is today, is 'live as i say live'. Whiney butt dopers are the cause of today's problems? Someone lighting up a joint in their livingroom and hanging around will be the end of the American civilization. I beg to differ. Take your idiocy elsewhere. Your post is irrelevant to the topic and I'm only replying to it because you are full of it and your statements need to be shown for what they are: stupid.
At the very least, that damn fool will cost me money. Under the present system, I'll have to pay his unemployment benefit because he's too stoned to get work, I'll have to pay for his hospital bills when he gets too whacked to realise his heart ought to beat and his lungs take in oxygen. If he's disorderly and all over the place, I'll have to pay for the police to get the idiot off my doorstep.
If I hear Liberatarians first advocating getting rid of unemployment insurance, "free" medical care, and making drug addicts pay for what they do, then I might consider it. But the Libertarian approach is always legalisation first without considering the consequences it would have.
Of course even if those conditions still did exist, I'd have to pay for the police at the very least. And given how the price of drugs would fall right through the floor, consumption would rise. And given that the deep shame of being a drug user from the 19th century no longer exists, all the constraints would be off. Heroin parties after work for everyone would be next. Oh, joy.
Ivan
"Let's get..to the point, let's roll, 'nother joint...let's out on the road. There's somewhere, I gotta go" - Tom Petty
I had to throw that in....
Well, that's definitely my philosophy when it comes to middle school children and sex. As adults, I think most of us have no problem with other adults living their life like they see fit. Middle school kids need guidance and positive peers.