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To: DiogenesLamp

Yup, absolutely no freedom at all, people like you want to do the same thing here like all nanny staters.


214 posted on 02/02/2015 3:43:13 PM PST by eastforker (Cruz for steam in 2016)
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To: eastforker
Yup, absolutely no freedom at all, people like you want to do the same thing here like all nanny staters.

It is a mockery of the word "freedom" to equate it to drug usage. You might just as well to the freedom of buggering animals. It has nothing to do with freedom, and everything to do with hedonistic indulgence.

As Edmund Burke said:

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, — in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Grow up.

233 posted on 02/02/2015 4:06:29 PM PST by DiogenesLamp
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