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as you have so aptly shown in your posts, that they will lose the argument.

I have not tried to "win" an argument; I have only expressed my opinion. To me, this is not a game to see who is the best at debating or who has the best debating skills; nor have I said I have those skills or attempted to "win" anyone over. I posted to express my opinions, and, to some extent, posted from another site to show that I am, as everyone knows here, not inventing my statements out of thin air, as it is already well known that what I state and think is stated and thought by many people, whether or not you agree with those statements or thoughts.

I posted to express my opinions

Yep, and then failed to adequately support your opinion, nor explain the clear contracdiction between your attitude towards pot and your attitude towards alcohol, other than, perhaps, that you personally use alcohol and don't use pot. And then you turn around and have the nerve to say this:

There is no point to continue attempting to state anything on this thread; the environment is unreasonable and unproductive.

nm, you wrote, "I have not tried to 'win' an argument; I have only expressed my opinion. To me, this is not a game ...."

But speaking of games, this reminds me of back in the day, when I used to play Dungeons & Dragons. Characters were supposed to choose "alignments." They were to choose along the spectrum of lawful-neutral-chaotic, as well as good-neutral-evil.

Totalibertarians tend to get more and more "chaotic-neutral," as they go, which leaves everything up to raw (fallen) human nature. (I liked playing "netrual-good," characters myself.) This tends to fit their sentiments (at least #3, below):

an·ar·chism
n. 1. The theory or doctrine that all forms of government are oppressive and undesirable and should be abolished.
2.Active resistance and terrorism against the state, as used by some anarchists.
3. Rejection of all forms of coercive control and authority: ?He was inclined to anarchism; he hated system and organization and uniformity? (Bertrand Russell).

(And btw, as I've said, I don't think people should be incarcerated simply for owning a bit of cannabis.)