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I did call drug possession and prostitution non-crimes, of course, so my libertarian credentials are still good. I've always been pro-life.

Isn't that selective morality? Abortion is immoral because the result is a violent death of an innocent and defenseless human being. Prostitution is also immoral because it reduces a person to an object, dehumanizing them at a base level. And drugs speak for themselves.

While it is true that laws have never completely stopped any action in society, this is not an acceptable excuse to legalize the action. Conversely, if making a thing legal were the answer to crime we could simply make everything legal and all crime would be brought under control.

Legalizing drugs, prostitution, or any other immoral action will not make society better, but make it worse. The legalization of such immoral acts only initially make law enforcement easier because fewer people are arrested, tried and jailed. But, eventually immorality breeds immorality without improving society.

If you want less government, then you should fight to retain what remains of our foundational culture.

Isn't that selective morality? Abortion is immoral because the result is a violent death of an innocent and defenseless human being. Prostitution is also immoral because it reduces a person to an object, dehumanizing them at a base level. And drugs speak for themselves.

Do they? You can't take their immorality as a given. I certainly don't give it. I don't know about prostitution reducing a person to an object, either. What, exactly, would such a reduction consist of? I've always thought of commerce as a distinctly human activity. No, prostitution is immoral because it involves fornication.

You're right, of course, that abortion is immoral because it kills someone. It's also something else. It's a crime. There's an actual victim, the baby.

While it is true that laws have never completely stopped any action in society, this is not an acceptable excuse to legalize the action. Conversely, if making a thing legal were the answer to crime we could simply make everything legal and all crime would be brought under control.

That's not the reason to make those things legal. The reason is, they aren't crimes. Any punishment of them is itself a crime, a crime you have to fund.

Legalizing drugs, prostitution, or any other immoral action will not make society better, but make it worse.

The immoral action I'm concerned with is violating the rights of someone else. That most certainly will make society worse.

If you want less government, then you should fight to retain what remains of our foundational culture.

I can see fighting for our culture, but not, you know, fighting for our culture.

If you want less government, then you should fight to retain what remains of our foundational culture.

You just made a big mistake on that one. Our foundational culture never placed anyone in jail for being a drug user. Infact drugs existed back in the very good ol days like they do now. Morphine was sold in bottles legal for all in every single general store across america. Now I do not believe you can compare THC to being as nasty a drug like Morphine but you get my point.

The idea of outlawing drugs like morphine, booze and other products is a very new one to our nation not an old one.

The problem is that we never paid for addicts to live a life of being a drug user in the days of the early republic.Most Americans stayed away from those items because of quite a few reasons however the most important is that they would die from them quite early because of no government welfare or programs to keep them on legal drugs with taxpayer money like we have now.

The problem with some libertarians is that they believe that drugs should be legal and then taxed to fund more government programs. I believe drugs should be legal without a tax and no treatment for addicts. Put the orignal danger back into drugs. You know early death and let the problem weed itself out over two or three years.

Libertarians who want drugs to be legal and then taxed for more social welfare programs are dealing with two large problems. Making the government your drug dealer and growing government by keeping addicts alive to fund itself.