To: Joe Bfstplk
Because Singapore is very small, and is willing to sacrifice almost all freedoms we and the British hold dear for the sake of social order.
Stopping people from ruining their lives by screwing up their brain chemistry isn't worth the cost of living in a police state.
10 posted on
06/18/2006 9:34:42 AM PDT by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: The_Reader_David
Stopping people from ruining their lives by screwing up their brain chemistry isn't worth the cost of living in a police state. Exactly.
To: The_Reader_David
Stopping people from ruining their lives by screwing up their brain chemistry isn't worth the cost of living in a police state.
Oh really? What about the absolutely enormous cost of continuing an ineffective policy? Either we ramp it up and stomp out drug use or we'll have to admit the same kind of defeat this drug tsar in Scotland is admitting.
19 posted on
06/18/2006 9:41:28 AM PDT by
SittinYonder
(Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan,)
To: The_Reader_David
"Stopping people from ruining their lives by screwing up their brain chemistry isn't worth the cost of living in a police state"
Sums it up in one sentence. Brilliant.
63 posted on
06/18/2006 10:50:55 AM PDT by
RedStateRocker
(Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA.)
To: The_Reader_David
I agree...this thread is starting to sound like a totalitarian advocacy thread. Stalin and Hitler got a lot of things "Cleaned Up" too....uh, so we want to emulate Singapore now? Yuk. singapore? ha.
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