I understand that but I think when we let the debate fall to those who impose their opinions as fact, listen to distorted statistics, and find reason to suspend freedom and liberty behind any little rock we pay a heavier price. The same BS is used for global warming, gun control, TSA and more. FR could strip me if it wanted but my love of freedom far outweighs the people that make a living from pot laws and prisons or people that just don’t know the truth. I’d no more trade liberty for a FR membership than a WWF card.
I actually agree with everything you are saying. It’s probably about the only debate in regard to the freedom, liberty, and rights of which you speak I have walked away from on this site. HOwever, I have been burned so badly here in the past by some of those posters that I did it for self preservation and the fact I refused to defend those who would strip others of freedoms and liberty. Selfish, probably, but unlike the others, I don’t go on those threads and play tit for tat as I was subjected to for quite a few years here. I just stay out of the conversation most of the time.