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To: TonyRo76
"I'm no socialist; I hate Big Government just as much as you do; I simply prefer that people not f### up themselves with happy-weed all their lives so that someday I and other taxpayers will have to take care of them."

Uh, then I think what you should be worrying about is dismantling the socialistic system that will FORCE you to take care of them, rather than jumping on the totalitarian badwagon that says the government should be able to tell you what to do.

I don't want to take care of people who are too stupid, too lazy, too undisciplined, or too whatever, to take care of themselves, either. But I'm not here railing against fatty foods, cigarettes, alcohol, people who don't try to save for their own retirement, or anything else.

See, I believe that everyone is responsible for themselves, and particularly for their own behavior and choices. It spreads the work around. Otherwise, over time you end up with a bunch of people who do whatever they please without consequence, while a handful of responsible, self-controlled individuals pick up their slack. Hmmm, sounds a lot like this country today, doesn't it?

Besides, just because some people can't handle pot, should everyone be prohibited from using it? How does that fit with the laws concerning alcohol? Just because some guy can't have a drink without being a raging drunk alcoholic, should I be prohibited from having a beer or two while I watch a baseball game? And if I drink twenty beers a day for my whole life, should you be forced to "take care of me"? Hardly. Its no different with pot.

Sorry, but don't make other people's weaknesses my problem, or use them to tell me what I can and cannot do. By saying that you don't want to be forced to take care of those weak people, you are trying to make their weakness MY problem, OUR problem, instead of making sure that their weakness, their choices, are THEIR problem, with direct consequences to THEM, not you and me.

438 posted on 08/01/2002 1:58:07 PM PDT by Sicon
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To: Sicon

Sorry, but don't make other people's weaknesses my problem, or use them to tell me what I can and cannot do. By saying that you don't want to be forced to take care of those weak people, you are trying to make their weakness MY problem, OUR problem, instead of making sure that their weakness, their choices, are THEIR problem, with direct consequences to THEM, not you and me.

What you say is almost exactly how politicians and bureaucrats go about doing their jobs. It's also championed by mainstream media reporters, journalists and academics.

445 posted on 08/01/2002 2:14:27 PM PDT by Zon
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