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To: Hemingway's Ghost

“I could make a logical argument that simply by drawing a breath my actions affect others.”

No, you can’t. Absurdum ad reductio.

The middle ground between Tyranny (which you suggest I’m advocating) and Anarchy (which is what you’re advocating) is called How We’ve Done It in the United States for 200-odd years. And that’s really what I’m advocating.


159 posted on 01/11/2012 3:01:15 PM PST by Blue Ink
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To: Blue Ink
How We’ve Done It in the United States for 200-odd years.

For most of those 200+ years there were no federal drug laws.

160 posted on 01/11/2012 3:06:23 PM PST by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: Blue Ink
Do you honestly mean to suggest the notion that "no man is an island" is a valid principle on which we, as a society, should base actual law? Okay, I'll play. Where does it begin? Where does it end? How much damage does one have to endure before he can hold someone else criminally or civilly liable for those damages? What sort of relationship has there to be between cause and effect to hold up in a court of law?

This is your argument, so set some parameters. Let's get into it.

165 posted on 01/11/2012 3:24:59 PM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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