does that mean they'll be coming for my chocolate soon?!?! I tend to spend too much time on FR and it's not too good on my eyes... . OH MY!
That's sort of my point. Conservatives or libertarians don't try to argue, for example, that "the statisics showing that people who eat too much choclate get fat and have zits are LIES LIES." They argue that, despite certain conceded potentially unhealthy aspects of chocolate that it shouldn't be banned because people have the FREEDOM to use it.
When its marijuana, however, they don't allow themselves to make the concession. They cling stubbornly to the concept that marijuana is the greatest thing on god's green leafy earth.
Once the "freedom" theory is abandoned for pot in favor of the "aint bad for ya" theory it opens to the door to the logical and rhetorical position that we should abandon the "freedom" theory in other areas and look solely at whether or not its bad for you.
And that opens the door to the exact place the socialists, liberal, etc., want us to go.
In other words I think we may have found FR's own "useful idiots." ;-)