Posted on 04/04/2010 6:51:11 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
And we should ban everything in existence that gives hurt to people in any way, shape, or form?
Is that what you want? For you are emotionally hurting me...
:-P
Then I take it you are for drug legalization. For our nation, founded by more moral men then us, found it right and just to *NOT* impose controls over what any man, or woman could ingest.
It was only in the mid-1910s did this concept become morally acceptable. The Harrison Act of 1914 was the first law on this matter.
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Just because something's 'always been this way' doesn't mean that it's 'always been this way'.
My point exactly. The difference between a juvenile and an adult.
It can also be put in terms of human (civilized) consciousness.
Lock up everyone who's used a drug! Alcohol, tobacco (nicotine), doctor-proscribed prescription medicine!
Sheesh! Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel, here.
Seems to me that you're real beef (and mine) is with the government's welfare state. So instead of being diverted from that and wasting your attention on the red-herring of drugs, you really ought to simply keep your eye on the welfare state problem.
How could the Commerce clause affect the sale of Californian-grown marijuana for sale in California?
Of course not, then the political parties would have one less ‘issue’ to campaign on.
Same with abortion, or guns. Neither party has a vested interest in actually dealing with the problem, for if it was solved... how could they motivate their base to come out and vote?
Hmm, sounds like you’ve saying that marijuana is bad for you.
Maybe we ought to ban McDonald’s food, too. It’s bad for you as well.
Your vitriol against Dr. / Rep. Paul is nothing short of the bitterness that is spewed out by the progressives over @ MSNBC, DailyKos & DU. Typical PaulHater BS.
It is the PaulHaters that I don’t mind offending....& in fact, I take pleasure in raising their blood pressure. Perhaps all of them should go to work for President Ahmadinejad of Iran. They would be good mouthpieces for him.
No I'm not. I'm not the one using anything. I am acknowledging that society will. You present no evidence to the contrary, and in fact, don't even engage the issue.
So you think society holds individuals accountable for their alcohol related problems? I don't think so.
I accepted your terms for the discussion. Simply disagreeing, especially when I stated the conditions I would agree with you tells me yours was not a thought out response. That's fine if that's what your standards are, but if libertarians are serious about persuading people, you'll need to do better than just shout "Prohibition!"
Because some folks need an adult to show them that some behaviors are simply self-destructive, anti-social and immoral. Some need to be forcefully shown. Next question?
I suppose you “in favor” of having folks doing all sorts of every day behaviors (some risky) while out of their minds is just a “self expression” thing, for tax revenues?
News flash-libertine behaviors happen to affect many others; so don’t get upset when you harm another and the big ugly dude with a sharp stick adds the punctuation marks to the story; hey, it is his right to do so under your mistaken reality, right?
How many of you have policed up body parts after a car full of high, drunk kids splatters all over the highway? Or maybe a car full of otherwise family members destroyed by a crack head out of his gourd (probably never was much there in the first place, though). Maybe the house breaker who rapes, murders and mutilates a couple becuase they did not have a hit of herion or enough cash to buy one for him? If it was legal, he’d have the funds to obtain it legally? yeah, okay. Only if obamacare funds it out of taxpayer’s pockets.
Victimless my butt. That’s your reality.
No other reponse from me-either you see the reality of (illicit or not) “recreational” use of drugs or you don’t.
God Bless
“I am acknowledging that society will.”
Society means the government in most people’s lexicon, ie, the welfare state.
I was born in 1950, does that make me old enough? How old are you?
I guess we’ve just led different lives.
These are different types of harm. The food at McD’s may make one fat but it does not trigger schizophrenia.
Okay. That doesn't change my point.
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