Finally and thank you.
OK, after 90+ comments here’s my unresolved beef:
This great discussion started with Dr. Paul’s statement: “If we are allowed to deal with our eternity and all that we believe in spiritually, and if we’re allowed to read any book that we want under freedom of speech, why is it we can’t put into our body whatever we want?”
The problem I have as a Christian is that Dr. Paul is supposedly a self ascribed Baptist which is why I quoted 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. His is directly disobeying his Master’s command and encouraging others to do so. Big contradiction there.....huge!
The problem I have a member of the voting electorate is that as a physician, Dr. Paul should know better than to make a totally illogical blanket statement like this. Everyone here knows he’s really just trying to pick up the ‘marijuana’ vote.
The inescapable truth, as some have noted, is that eventually everyone’s behavior (good and bad) WILL effect someone else. Few might be able to pull it off for a short period of time but no society can or will survive where simply “anything goes”. If you know of one, name it.
This is where LIMITED (I said limited) government steps in based on our Constitution and Bill of Rights. We have freedom in America to an extent. So long as your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness doesn’t infringe on my rights, then go for it. Protecting my rights as a private citizen trumps the free exercise of yours in SPECIFIC, CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
So no, you can’t put into your body whatever you want in America simply for freedom’s sake. Here’s a crazy example: Should anyone have the right to overdose on radioactive material in the privacy of their own home......especially if they haven’t told the person who finds them dead and highly radiactive?
Why or why not?