Really? Leave me alone?
Does a drunk driver on the road count as leaving me alone?
Does a drug dealer, trying to sell to kids and people who steal and rob count as leaving me alone?
Abortion? Not exactly a direct impact on me. But as a man of conscience, I can not simply shrug while some woman caves in her child’s head. It is not only her that is affected.
Does our government go WAY to far with laws controlling everything? Yes. But that doesn’t mean that the answer is to go the exact opposite direction. We will, and must have laws limiting how much our actions can affect another.
Defenders of DUI as a victimless crime(BS) and traffic laws as artificial are a prime example. Whatever they think, their choices affects others. Those others will not sit quietly by while they get abused.
No. Some of the extreme Libertarian philosophies is anything but “leaving me alone.”
Does a drunk driver on the road count as leaving me alone?
Vehicular manslaugter due to driver negligence or irresponsibility is a crime either way. How does a state mandated limit on BAC make it any MORE of a crime? It's irrelevant of whether it was alcohol or texting while driving (which is proving to be just as if not more deadly as DUI).
Does a drug dealer, trying to sell to kids and people who steal and rob count as leaving me alone?
Are these people stealing and robbing from you? If so - stealing and robbing are crimes and they should be prosecuted. Whether they were on drugs or seeking drugs is, again - irrelevant.
Abortion? Not exactly a direct impact on me. But as a man of conscience, I can not simply shrug while some woman caves in her child’s head. It is not only her that is affected.
You will get no argument from me on this one - proud member of
Libertarians for Life.
But on the others - the fact is that you want laws added on top of laws for things that are already crimes - that will do nothing to stop those crimes from happening. It only makes criminals out of more people, who may not even commit those crimes against others. Only the 'crime' of taking some drug.
Let's apply your argument to a leftist positions:
Liberal: Does the tea party lunatic with an AR-15 next door, that might go off while he's cleaning it count as 'leaving me alone'? We should make sure this never happens by making ownership of it illegal?
Liberal: Does the right winger who open carries in the mall 'leave me alone'....I am a hoplophope and the sight of a gun might send me into convulsions! We should make sure that never happens by making open carry illegal.
It doesn't matter that you are a responsible gun owner who never cleans his weapon with a loaded magazine...have carried all your life without incident...just the mere chance that you *might* is enough for the left to justify with firearms exactly what you are trying to justify with ingestible substances.
The only difference is that we have a constitutional amendment protecting the former.