[MEGoody]

If you don't need it to survive, the government is perfectly entitled to forbid it to you?

Apparently, you did not read my full post. I explicitly indicated I was not talking about prohibition itself. I simply stated that it was silly to claim that passing the law forced people to become lawbreakers. If they broke the law, they did so by choice.

[fr_freak]

Apparently, you did not read my full post. I explicitly indicated I was not talking about prohibition itself. I simply stated that it was silly to claim that passing the law forced people to become lawbreakers. If they broke the law, they did so by choice.

Well, I'm not talking about just Prohibition, either. I'm talking about the very concept of a government that thinks it is entitled to make anything and everything it wants illegal, until we all become lawbreakers just by virtue of going about our daily business. If the government outlaws Twinkies tomorrow, are you going to be OK with federal agents rounding Twinkie-eaters up and chucking them in prison, with your rationale being, "Well, it was their choice to break the law!" How about if they outlaw the flag? Or Prayer?