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To: Kevin Curry
"Social liberalism teaches that drug use is no one's business and drug addiction is no one's fault. "

That is social liberalism, but not libertarianism. libertarians believe if you are a drug addict, it is your own damn fault. Because you can't understand this subtle but huge difference, it is neveer worth debating you.

70 posted on 09/14/2003 1:43:47 AM PDT by FastCoyote
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To: FastCoyote
That is social liberalism, but not libertarianism. libertarians believe if you are a drug addict, it is your own damn fault. Because you can't understand this subtle but huge difference, it is neveer worth debating you.

Wrong. I understand it much better than you do. This libertarianism approach to drugs that you describe will NEVER be adopted by American society. Relax controls on drugs, eliminate drugs laws, open the jails and allow the drug dealers to walk freely and unmolested and you will find yourself at a social liberal endpoint--not a libertarian endpoint. That means vastly increased social welfare costs to coddle and care for drug users and insure their irresponsibility at taxpayer expense.

I consider the practical and sure consequences of the bone-headed and short-sighted libertarian approach to drugs. You and all other libertarians play mind games, envisioning this "perfect" society where Americans will step over the bodies of drug abusers lying in the streets and say, "Them's the breaks, bub." It'll never happen.

And Schwarzenegger, like all social liberals, will ensure as he puts it "That everything has to be provided for the people."

85 posted on 09/14/2003 8:22:36 AM PDT by Kevin Curry
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