[JTN]

As a person who agrees with worldview #2, I'd like to point out to you that it gives us very little help in determining practical public policy regarding such questions as drug use. Everyone can see that murder and rape are wrong, but the issue at hand is whether it is acceptable for the government to enforce particular conceptions of morality in activities where the morality of an activity is ambiguous at best. I don't see that there is anything immoral about responsible drug use. You may disagree, but why should your view carry the day, when a drug user is only hurting himself? Morality may be perfect and absolute, but man's perception of it is not. I submit to the C.S. Lewis (a man who certainly subscribed to worldview #2) rule, regarding "sin laws."

I quite agree with the Archbishop that no sin, simply as such, should be made a crime. Who the deuce are our rulers to enforce their opinions about sin on us? - a lot of professional politicians, often venal time-servers, whose opinion on a moral problem in one's life we shd attach very little value to.

Letters of C.S. Lewis

[little jeremiah]

And a woman, according to abortion supporters, is only removing the product of conception, uterine tissue, etc. She's not hurting anyone.

FYI, I have stated many times on FR that I am in favor of legalizing marijuana and opium poppies IF - a big IF - the smoker grows it him/herself, and cannot sell it on pain of public caning for the first offense, and public execution for the second offense.

And can't give it away, would be used as a front for selling.

That way, anyone who wants to can produce their own marijuana and opium and its derivatives for their own use without restriction. Of course, any employer can do drug testing if they want, so the users may wind up being seriously marginalized. But they'll be stoned, so they won't care.

Now that's a pretty generous plan, don't you think? And it'll take all the profit out of it. No gangs will get involved after the first spate of executions.