No, I'm saying that some things are TOO obscene for a community, and they make a law against it. As long as the BoR does not forbid them, they can. Some may make stupid laws, but hopefully they will learn from them, as they have over the past couple hundred years.
My question was about a law-abiding alcoholic which obviously means when he is drunk in public he must be in a state that hasn't outlawed public intoxication. And since we both know you weren't obfuscating it means you answered the question I asked and you did not respond to a question that you may have implied that I asked.
How much wood coulda woodchuck chuck..............
Seriously, I support public intoxication laws, so, no, I don't think it is better for a child to look up to an alcoholic than a speeder.
Seriously, I support public intoxication laws, so, no, I don't think it is better for a child to look up to an alcoholic than a speeder.
In post #309 you wrote. "Children look up to all adults, especially law abiding ones, as opposed to those breaking the law."
There is such a thing as law-abiding alcoholics and because they are law-abiding adults your assertion stands that a child is more likely to look up to the law-abider than the person that exceeds the speed limit.
BTW, you still haven't shown how you've been harmed by seeing a person on drugs and the best you've come up with is that you'd be offended. To which you further said, and I paraphrase, "it sets a bad example for children and as you know it takes a village to raise a child so the government must outlaw the bad example."