[noprob]

I've done very well, thanks for asking, particularly with people in my life who have either fallen into addiction and needed a good friend, or to younger kinds I know who needed a good example and counseling about the issue to help them avoid the scene entirely.

This is exactly what I want people to do, let's lean on support groups and churches, not on the government controlling us... Government control does not work. I actually think you agree with me, or you would leave it up to the war on drugs to solve the ills you speak of.

See, I think you are a libertarian after all. You didn't say anything about throwing the worthless users in the pen for 10 years. You wanted to treat the problem and attack it on a proper front.. In private citizens hands, not some judge or politician...

[HitmanLV]

I'm glad we agree, friend, and I never said I wasn't a libertarian (you have an odd penchant for mind reading, I have to say)!

But I may have misread you, and if so I apologize. Why would you say earlier in this thread that I did no good, and now, only a few minutes later agree what I do is exactly what you want people to do.

To reconcile those two thoughts is that you want people to take matters like this in their hands, yet you think that behavior does not do any, or much, good.

I think we are in agreement, though, especially if I just read your last response as your answer and not place much weight on the idea that you don't think I did much good. In fact, I think too many people of all political stripes see their commitment to a better world as just a ballot-box thing. Bad thing, I'd say.