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To: DiogenesLamp

You have twisted sense of freedom. you don’t establish freedom by making them illegal. That is the opposite of freedom. If people break the law likes DUI or burglaries to feed the habit put them in prison.


114 posted on 11/27/2017 5:57:03 PM PST by morphing libertarian (A proud member of the Ruthie Bader Afternoon Nap Club)
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To: morphing libertarian
You have twisted sense of freedom. you don’t establish freedom by making them illegal. That is the opposite of freedom. If people break the law likes DUI or burglaries to feed the habit put them in prison.

I want to show you something profound, and I hope you have the wisdom to understand it.

"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."
-Edmund Burke-

125 posted on 11/27/2017 8:11:09 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: morphing libertarian; DiogenesLamp

Yeah, since freedom means no laws, bring it on! No legislating morality! That’s why the Libertarian Party wants all kinds of porn (originally they included child porn), prostitution, all drugs and abortion legal!

And heck, to carry this noble sentiment to its logical conclusion, people are still raping, murdering and committing assault, right? Why legislate morality? It infringes upon peoples’ freedom, and they’re doing it anyway! Get rid of laws against those things, too! And all the other hateful laws legislating morality.

Freedom!!! yeah!


132 posted on 11/27/2017 8:26:36 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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