And then they run around accusing the libertarians of being the hysterical ones? It's the same kind of projection we see from the Left so often.
My experience on this thread is that it's the Prohibitionists who are hysterical and unhinged, resorting to feeble smears and insults in an effort to shift the focus from their arbitrary authoritarian dogma—which is fundamentally indefensible.
As soon as any government—enabled by Tyrants, bureaucrats and/or an emotional mob—can start implementing arbitrary law, and declaring this or that to be a crime in the complete absence of anyone's rights being infringed, there is no practical limit to the power the State can wield.
And that is the narrow view of "Liberty" and the "Pursuit of Happiness" that everyone else is supposed to swallow?
What a Free Individual does—or possesses—in the privacy of their home (that pesky ol' Fourth Amendment rearing its ugly head again) is nobody else's business, as long as nobody's rights are being infringed. And for anyone to claim they believe in minimal government while rejecting that notion is the epitome of hypocrisy.
So let the smears and insults fly. I, for one, consider them as a badge of honor—a testament to the bankruptcy of the Prohibitionist argument...
“My experience on this thread is that it’s the Prohibitionists who are hysterical and unhinged, resorting to feeble smears and insults”
Down the decades I have noticed that people on the wrong side of an issue often argue like liberals. They may not *be* liberals; just wrong on one issue. And they are perfectly reasonable about everything else. But when that one issue comes up, they argue like liberals.
I have a theory that, when you arrive in the middle of a discussion, you can quickly tell which side is right by observing which side it is that is arguing like liberals.