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To: FreeTally
The two of you's inability to distinguish the difference between school grade requirements/laws against people pissing on the street and a federal or State law requiring a one time "test" for a driver's license is astonishing.

The point is that there's nothing wrong with requiring a teen to meet a drug free condition before getting his license. It's the same for kids who are required to have good grades before joining a sports team or who are required to show they can read before getting a diploma. Set a high bar, and most kids will rise to it.

304 posted on 10/31/2002 11:08:13 AM PST by yendu bwam
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To: yendu bwam
The point is that there's nothing wrong with requiring a teen to meet a drug free condition before getting his license.

Nothing "wrong" because why? Because you say so?

It's the same for kids who are required to have good grades before joining a sports team or who are required to show they can read before getting a diploma.

Again, your refusal to see the difference is noted. A school system does not make law - it can't imprison you. I can attempt to find a school to send my kids to that shares my values, and the public school I am zoned for has no say simply because I live in that disctrict. A school can make rules, but I only have to obey them if I elect to send my child there. Its voluntary(to some degree). The right to travel is a fundamental natural right. No level of government has the legitimate power to make an indivudual prove anything to it before they are "allowed" to travel by a certain means.

Urinating on the street is not a right and that's obvious to anyone who is being honest. Making the comparison between laws against public urination and drug tests for driver's licenses is disingenuous at best.

Set a high bar, and most kids will rise to it.

There is nothing wrong with individuals setting "high bars" for their kids. No one here would argue otherwise. The "high bar" becomes immoral and repugnant when you solicit the "government" to use their guns to force people to live up to your standards.

325 posted on 10/31/2002 11:27:47 AM PST by FreeTally
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