Posted on 09/28/2001 7:45:14 AM PDT by sendtoscott
Conservatives are fond of preaching the importance of taking "individual responsibility" for one's actions and beliefs. But when you ask them whether they're willing to take responsibility for the robberies and muggings that their beloved decades-long war on drugs have produced, they always and inevitably respond with, "Oh, no. We don't intend our policies to result in those things and therefore we're not responsible for them. Only robbers and muggers, with their lack of respect for liberty and private property, are responsible for their actions and beliefs."
Today, when you ask conservatives whether they're willing to take responsibility for their beloved decades-long foreign-aid program and interventionist foreign policy that have produced so much enmity, hatred, and perverse consequences for our country, their response is, not surprisingly, the same: "Oh, no. We don't intend our policies to result in those things and therefore we're not responsible for them. Only terrorists, with their lack of respect for liberty and private property, are responsible for their actions."
Question for conservatives: With respect to welfare programs, do you still feel that good intentions don't matter and that advocates of the decades-long war on poverty should take responsibility for its destructive consequences, or do you now feel that only the food-stamp mother in the grocery-store line is responsible for her actions and beliefs?
booze+pot=bad driving
booze in too high a level(no restraint)=bad driving
pot at any level=bad driving
What are you going to do? Sell joints in a package that have a warning 'don't operate heavy equipment'? Oh, I'm sure those that argue for the legalization of marijuana would just follow those words< /sarcasm>
They can hardly go two sentences without having to contradict themselves. You have been had, sir. Read what it actually says. When they get honest, they admit its the alcohol that causes problems. A regular pot smoker is not impaired. DOT does not even report "wrecks caused by marijuana" because a) they cant distinguish between other factors or pot and b) because you dont know if they are high. "Illegal drugs" are reported to be the cause of very few traffic accidents. Check that with DOT.
Most every casual pot smoker will tell you that it does not impair routine type activities. If you look into studies that "show" pot impairs you, I promise you will find that the subject was either a) not a normanl pot smoker b) was given a very unusually high dose or c) was given a task that was not normal, and one they would never take on. Its been said many times, tell me ehat result you want, and I will conduct a study that shows that result.
Like I told the other guy, then ban alcohol. Put up or shut up.Perhaps you are the one to shut up, scott. The owner of this forum you are squatting on is not in favor of drug legalization, or having anarchists use his forum to advance their twisted agendas.
Are you so ignorant that you cant even comprehend what you are saying??? You have absolutely no idea how many people are driving while on drugs right now, when they are "illegal". To think their sale and distributioin would work any differently than alcohol is childish and lacks any sound reasoning. To imply that those who wish to see and end to the WOD wish for "drugs" to be treated as candy is silly, and you know how disingenuous you are.
Your silly little snipit from a DOT report does not even say what you claim it does. Those idiots know damn well that it does not impair one like alcohol does. Pot does not substantially hurt motor functions. Thats a fact, jack. Take your government backed lies somewhere else.
My point was that alcohol is a drug that can be abused, and can harm users, families, society, etc. To be consistent, why ban other drugs and keep that one legal?Try raising that issue up at smirkingmonkey.org or bartcop.edu, where other moral-liberals hang out.
BUT MOMMY, MAKE THOSE PEOPLE STOP SMOKING MARIJUANA.....
Don't these WOD types sound like a little brat who cant stand to see his friend playing with a toy he does not have?
Logic, where's the logic.(Dont answer that, cuz I know they have none). They dont really care about the honest truth about the affects of "drugs", they just dont want people doing them becasue they said so.
...they just dont want people doing them becasue [sic] they said so.Your parents have spoken. As the whiney poster said, only conservatives can allow drug abuse. We just veto the whiney cries of the moral-liberals by ignoring their temper tantrums.
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