[B Knotts]

Incidentally, I find it extremely distasteful that you wish disease on another persion.

[george wythe]

His gambling never hurt anyone else. This is, of course, the classic libertarian standard of permissible behavior, and I think it's a good one.

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He [Bennett] wants to put marijuana smokers in jail.

If a conservative author takes a trip to Holland four times a year and smokes Dutch pot legally, is that conservative a good role model?

I personally have little problem with conservatives who either smoke pot and gamble where it's legal to conduct such activities.

I also suspect that most social conservatives of the fundamentalist tradition will have a hard time accepting a vice because it's legal in Nevada or Canada or Holland.