[Moby Grape]

This is one of the problems with the LP folk....they wish to claim no law is broken if they have not iniated force....if I drive 150 miles an hour through a school zone, I have not iniated force against someone.....but to your point about what you do in your home...I think of you as a law breaker for knowingly breaking the law....do I think of you as a criminal (like a theif or worse)? No. Would I report you to the police? No.

[Roscoe]

It's not a crime until
I run over somebody!

[realpatriot71]

I think of you as a law breaker for knowingly breaking the law....do I think of you as a criminal (like a theif or worse)? No. Would I report you to the police? No.

Ok, that's a start. Now, why is it such a big jump to decriminalize this activity?

[SJC_Libertarian]

they wish to claim no law is broken if they have not iniated force

Not so. Our claim is that defining something as a crime does not make the action wrong. Surely you are aware of the legal concepts of Malum In Se and Malum Prohibitum?

It was once illegal to shelter runaway slaves. Those who did so (and the escaping slaves themselves) broke the law, and were heroes in doing so.

It was once legal to own slaves. Those who did so acted within the law, but were committing serious crime.

Get it?