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To: btcusn
So...like the other guy, you still want me involved in their little habits. No thanks...if all those who want to stay wasted want to work something out voluntarily, then hey...go for it!

But that wouldn't work, right? All the things that druggies want to do require someone who isn't on drugs to act like an adult to administer it. That's the flaw behind libertarian attempts, for example, to legalize drugs. Someone still has to stay sober, to pick their lovely, stinky, stoned bodies out of the gutter.

30 posted on 02/10/2007 3:42:53 AM PST by gogeo
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To: gogeo

So...like the other guy, you still want me involved in their little habits. No thanks...if all those who want to stay wasted want to work something out voluntarily, then hey...go for it!

But that wouldn't work, right? All the things that druggies want to do require someone who isn't on drugs to act like an adult to administer it. That's the flaw behind libertarian attempts, for example, to legalize drugs. Someone still has to stay sober, to pick their lovely, stinky, stoned bodies out of the gutter.

Of course there has to be someone who is not on drugs to administer it, the most successful programs use a AA or NA member with proven years of soberity. These people do this because they want to, it's a large part of their own program of soberity to assist others.
And the only money to support such programs would come from the taxes collected on the sale of these drugs, not from any other source, so if someone doesn't buy drugs, they put no money into the rehab programs.
Jack


38 posted on 02/10/2007 11:33:48 AM PST by btcusn (Giving up the right to arms is a mistake a free people get to make only once.)
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