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To: RAT Patrol
I suggest Mr. debauched hedonist go form a group of other debauched hedonists and they can socialize together freely -- but in private.

I'd be cool with that. But guess what? Drugs are illegal in PRIVATE. Prostitution is illegal in PRIVATE. I just don't see society having a say in that stuff.

And wether you believe it or not, I have no interest in any of that stuff either. I just enjoy limiting governmental powers, and strenghtining individualism, at all levels.

59 posted on 07/19/2002 6:51:51 PM PDT by southern rock
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To: southern rock
I'd be cool with that. But guess what? Drugs are illegal in PRIVATE. Prostitution is illegal in PRIVATE. I just don't see society having a say in that stuff

Drugs effect crime, crime effects life, liberty (taxes), and the pursuit of happiness. Prostitution effects marriage, which effects children, which effects our future. Prostitution effects public health, which effects public costs and our taxes go up. etc...plus, we are sensory animals and the cultural environment effects us all.

Going from the individual liberty angle, the public welfare angle, the local control angle, or the moral angle, drugs and prostitution are bad for society. But that call is for a majority to make, not just me.

Different people define morality differently, true. We all also differ on the interpretation of the Constitution but no one reduces that to meaning it doesn't exist or isn't important. Even laws you accept are not always interpreted the same by all. So we discuss it, we vote, blah blah....(I am trying to be shorter, sorry)The Fed. gov't should be minimal. Local gov't is up to the community as long as it stays within the constitution. The Constitution does not guarantee the right to prostitution. Freedom of religion, speech, freedom from fear and want...the 4 foundational freedoms that concerned our Founders.

74 posted on 07/20/2002 8:46:25 PM PDT by RAT Patrol
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To: southern rock
I'm sure I got a detail or two wrong, but in general, that is how I see it. LOL! I don't want to control anyone either, lol. I just don't want public life reduced to the whim of the worst among us.
75 posted on 07/20/2002 8:52:38 PM PDT by RAT Patrol
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