To: MrLeRoy
IMO, it goes to the legal/legitimate argument. In today's society, if it's legal that means there's nothing wrong with it and you've got the go-ahead to do it.
Granted, in this case, it applies to a regulated product, but that appears to be a green light for teens. Ditto, tobacco.
To: robertpaulsen
In today's society, if it's legal that means there's nothing wrong with it and you've got the go-ahead to do it.Nonsense---huffing is legal for adults and children, yet relatively few children and even fewer adults do it.
55 posted on
09/19/2003 12:50:26 PM PDT by
MrLeRoy
(The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. - Jefferson)
To: robertpaulsen
"In today's society, if it's legal that means there's nothing wrong with it..."
You've identified the real problem here, the over-legalization of U.S. society.
In my experience, all sorts of things which are legal are entirely improper. The only folks I know who persistantly claim, "It's perfectly legal" as a justification for a particular act, are those who wouldn't know morality if it came up and bit them on the *ss!
Which I sincerely hope it will. ;^)
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