To: MrLeRoy
Big difference between
keeping something illegal versus
making something illegal.
And you're going on record to state an equivalence between doing drugs and overeating?
To: robertpaulsen
Activities are illegal even though they are not criminal. Here are two really simple examples: owning and using pistols and "assault weapons", and owning and using narcotics.
Neither one is a criminal act, guns don't hurt anyone, and neither does drug use.
But once ACTUAL CRIMES are involved (theft, fraud, murder, etc) then that is when we need to punish people.
Owning guns is not a crime unless you use them to commit CRIMINAL ACTS.
Owning and using drugs is not a crime unless you have committed a crime to aquire the drugs.
28 posted on
10/07/2003 11:33:42 AM PDT by
bc2
(http://www.thinkforyourself.us)
To: robertpaulsen
Drug users cost me money for everything from their hospitalizationSo do overeaters---going after them next?
Big difference between keeping something illegal versus making something illegal.
Difference? Sure. Big? Prove it.
And you're going on record to state an equivalence between doing drugs and overeating?
No, I'm going on record to state that overeaters, like drug users, cost you money.
33 posted on
10/07/2003 12:32:04 PM PDT by
MrLeRoy
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