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To: southern rock
Is Las Vegas a moral town? Should every town, like Vegas, legalize gambling, prostitution, etc.? I don't want to live in a city like that and neither do most people. To say that your liberty demands I live in that environment means you get the pursuit of happiness and I don't. Clearly, you do not define prostitutes on the street corner, porno mags in Walmart, dope heads everywhere, immoral, but I do. See, you have defined my rights out of existence.

Be immoral at home. Leave public places culturally clean, defined by a majority of the community. That's the only way EVERYONE gets liberty.

If you don't like my moral town, move to Vegas.

Immorality corrupts morality but not the other way around. Why do you think there are nudity laws?

52 posted on 07/19/2002 6:34:53 PM PDT by RAT Patrol
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To: RAT Patrol
I don't want to live in a city like that and neither do most people.

You don't get to decide how the other people in your town live. You only get to decide how YOU live. IMO, gambling and prostitution are free enterprise. You or the state have no right to interfere with others practicing free enterprise.

56 posted on 07/19/2002 6:41:06 PM PDT by southern rock
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To: RAT Patrol
Clearly, you do not define prostitutes on the street corner, porno mags in Walmart, dope heads everywhere, immoral, but I do.

You are wrong. I consider those things immoral as well. However, I am confident that I would not engage in those activities, even if they were legal, therefore they really don't bother me. I have my own bounderies. No one could ever force me to pick up a hooker or snort coke, so what's the problem?

Be immoral at home. Leave public places culturally clean,

Even in Las Vegas, prostitution and gambling are illegal in the streets. I'm O.K. with that.

58 posted on 07/19/2002 6:46:56 PM PDT by southern rock
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