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To: JamesP81

You said — “Fine. In that case, let’s outlaw alcohol production. Then tobacco. Then let’s impose censorship. Pretty soon you’re stoning people for acts of impropriety.”

Again, like I said — creating a problem where none has existed before. And like I said, earlier, prostitution has been illegal for a very long time. So, it’s changing *absolutely nothing* by continuing to have it *remain* illegal. The people who wish to *change things* are the ones who wish to *promote evil*. They are the ones who are really gunning for a change....

As far as cigarettes are concerned, that’s already happening. No news here. And for alcohol, that’s been done and the people didn’t want to go there, so it was repealed.

So, you’ve got two other examples of “changes” while the prositution example involves *no change* — if it remains the same.

Cigarettes are changing to illegal right now, as we speak and write. Alcohol will always be heavily controlled, as it is now, in the various states. And that’s the way it will probably remain.

So, what did you say you were going to do about the big tyranny right now — the Patriot Act, something of much greater consequence than all of the above examples???


338 posted on 05/10/2007 2:13:21 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Star Traveler
Cigarettes are changing to illegal right now, as we speak and write.

Which is a bad thing. I don't see why people can't see the long term. The slippery slope is very real. The key to not falling down is to not take the first step.

The people who wish to *change things* are the ones who wish to *promote evil*.

I think it's unfair to characterize certain libertarians that are against drug laws or prostitution laws as wanting to 'promote evil'. Granted there will be some, but there are a great many of them that think that less evil will occur if certain things that are currently illegal were not illegal. It insults their integrity to claim they are promoting evil; very few of them really are. They're accepting a lesser evil now to avoid a greater one down the road.

So, what did you say you were going to do about the big tyranny right now — the Patriot Act

The Patriot Act probably isn't a good thing. I was OK with it at first, but I can now see that it's a step in the wrong direction (or at least parts of it are). Now that I know I should be working against that form of government overreach, I'll comment on others as well.
343 posted on 05/10/2007 2:40:20 PM PDT by JamesP81 (Isaiah 10:1 - "Woe to those who enact evil statutes")
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