Posted on 06/17/2002 5:32:16 AM PDT by Dane
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:02:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Kinda makes one proud to be an American, don't it?
Hey, whatever floats your boat, but two conditions: 1)Don't ask me to pay for your hospitalization or contibute my money to your self-destruction, and 2)I don't want you as my doctor, pilot, poiceman, fireman, teacher, lawyer, you get the idea.
OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!
I don't think society has any right to tell me I can't indulge.....unless I cross the line by endangering others because I''ve been drinking irresponsibly.
Below is the complete article that Dane didn't want to post:8
LOL! The only reason I didn't post it is because the web site wouldn't let me cut and paste with my browser(netscape).
Is everything a conspiracy to you Zon?
So you cop a plea of incompetence. Fine. It suits you well. Thanks for playing right into my hand where I merely assisted in you showing your true colors/incompetence.
Also, I never implied a conspiracy. Interesting that you would create that straw man.
Worked just fine for me. See if your local community college offers courses in how to use a computer.
a free republic cannot be maintained if its citizens are stoned or drunk.
No beneficial society can be maintained if it's citizens aid in the initiation of force, threat of force and fraud against any persons.
Who actually thinks that voting for the lesser of two evils will beget something other than more evil.
Uh no that would be the Libertarians, who hold up the principle of the right to smoke dope anywhere, anytime as paramount.
LOL Zon! Only Libertarians would have the hubris to make an issue out of a way something is posted.
Oh well I guess that is your only arguement, no matter how weak it is.
Well yes but my point was that to the WOD'ers here a liberal and a libertarian are all the same. They seem to be unable to comprehend a distinction between the two.
Let's try to be a little less disingenuous. If there were a blood-soaked gladiator ring with consenting contestants battling to the death for that consensual million dollar prize and being broadcast on consensual prime-time TV, the ideologues would have no issue with that whatsoever.
"Who cares?"
"So what?"
"Too bad!"
Consider, too, how the same plea was used with pornography and homosexuality, which were almost universally condemned by everyone and not allowed. The "Behind Hallowed Closed Doors" argument seems to have all but vanished now that pornography has inundated our society. One can't walk down the street, or open the email box, without it slapping you in the face every day. Perversion is now paraded and given legitimacy because of nazi-like intimidation tactics. If any local city should fail to play along, then they can count on seeing an organized "kiss-in" in front of Santa Claus and the kids next Christmas, not behind closed doors, but in the mall. Perverts have more rights to engage in perversion in public than children have rights to their own innocence. These nazi-like intimidation tactics are used even here by libertarian ideologues, who will say to those who oppose legalization efforts that they will call in a false tip to the DEA on them, not as a way to offer a debating point but to intimidate and silence.
A poster yesterday was whining about how shocked and upset he was when, at a check-out counter in the Netherlands, he and his young son were exposed to a magazine cover depicting homosexual fellatio in full vivid color. He expressed disgust at how drenched in pornography society had become not just in Holland but also here in the US.
Then in the next breath he tripped over his tongue in the rush to reassure everyone that the fact that HE found pornography offensive means nothing. "To each is own. I don't like it, but--hey--maybe you do. Have at."
The numbskull didn't realize that laissez-faire attitudes such as his are what allowed the floodgates of pornography to open onto the public square in the first place. Those same attitudes will ensure pornography will continue to fill the public square until we are all swimming in pornography up to our necks.
It won't be long before the only way to avoid other citizens' "private" consumption of pornography will be to become recluses from society. We will have the "right" to avoid it only in our own homes.
The more gains the pro-dope, pro-gay, pro-porn dipwads make in championing their alleged "private" right to indulge, the more public these obsessive behaviors become. There is nothing private about it at all.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.