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To: pissant
I don't drink much because I don't like alcohol's effects on me. It can be used responsibly by most people just as most other drugs can. The destructive effects of alcohol abuse are well know. By most people. When compared on a point by point basis with heroin alcohol, excluding the effects imparted by criminal liabilities, alcohol comes out much worse.

Child porn involves the inherent harm to others for its existence so it doesn't pass the liberty test.

Public nudity is legal in many places and shouldn't be a criminal act.

Living in a teepee in Times Square would be a violation of other's property rights. That doesn't pass the liberty test.

Starting a Taliban Booster club should be, and probably is, perfectly legal. So is being an Aryan Brother or a New Black Panther. Are you suggesting that the right to associate with others or freedom of expression should be outlawed? It wouldn't surprise me that you did.

87 posted on 06/25/2010 1:28:39 PM PDT by TigersEye ("Flotilla" means "pirate ships running supplies to terrorists.")
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To: TigersEye
Child porn involves the inherent harm to others for its existence so it doesn't pass the liberty test.

By whose definition is this harmful? What about 12 year olds together, voluntarily, paid handsomely, making a film for perverts to watch? Oh that's right, it's still going to be illegal BECAUSE WE MAKE THE MORAL JUDGMENT that is wrong and therefore ban it along with all other types of kiddie porn.

Public nudity is legal in many places and shouldn't be a criminal act.

It is? At a few beaches, mostly private. Should you be able to walk buck naked into a Starbucks? Into the next screening of The Princess and the Frog?

If that's your definition of liberty, you need to find another country, ace.

Living in a teepee in Times Square would be a violation of other's property rights. That doesn't pass the liberty test.

There's plenty of City owned (ie public) spaces within times square. Set up your teepee there. Oh wait, you mean its a moral judgment and therefore law that we do not want people to occupy public spaces with their semi-permanent presence. No stick hut residences in Central Park? No tents on the intersection of 43rd street? Man, what statists!

Starting a Taliban Booster club should be, and probably is, perfectly legal.

I guess not.

Former NY student gets 15-years for aiding al Qaeda
http://thetvrealist.com/gossip/Former-NY-student-gets-15years-for-aiding-al-Qaeda-2711205.html

93 posted on 06/25/2010 2:00:30 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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