Again, I suggested anything different? So then, why the death penalty if you can't stop it among minors? Is this not a logical question?
Why not legalize all the way to conception and make parents responsible for what the kids do, if they're going to do it anyway. But making parents responsible would require a law to obtain leverage to make the parents responsible for their children's actions that choose not to make them responsible, right? There is no standard of responsibility if we are not created by God.
This is where rational thinking fails, death penalty for selling to minors even if they are going to do it anyway.
If the fear of God fails in this country, anything goes, and no amount of logic can withhold it.
As a parent, the fear of God started with me. My son, a senior engineer at 26 years of age with a masters in physics and computer modeling and a very physical and skilled hockey player, was raised in a very simple manner that didn't require help from society/government. I told him that he could run around with whomever he wished, but, if he was with someone or in a group and mischief and mayhem was suggested, he had two choices, either lead the situation in a harmless direction....or leave, else, he and I would have a major issue betwixt he and me.
He violated that only twice.
He is highly responsible individual, and I rejoice in him daily and give thanks to the Lord for his wisdom in raising him. I'm too much of an idiot to have accomplished this by myself....you of course just require Buckley.
Speaking of Buckley...
June 29, 2004, 12:07 p.m.
Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. But intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great. The laws aren’t exactly indefensible, because practically nothing is, and the thunderers who tell us to stay the course can always find one man or woman who, having taken marijuana, moved on to severe mental disorder. But that argument, to quote myself, is on the order of saying that every rapist began by masturbating.
General rules based on individual victims are unwise. And although there is a perfectly respectable case against using marijuana, the penalties imposed on those who reject that case, or who give way to weakness of resolution, are very difficult to defend. If all our laws were paradigmatic, imagine what we would do to anyone caught lighting a cigarette, or drinking a beer. Or — exulting in life in the paradigm — committing adultery. Send them all to Guantanamo?
http://old.nationalreview.com/buckley/buckley200406291207.asp