[DAnconia55]

As I read it ... All private Gambling of all forms has just been made legal. The Drug laws -- excluding of public intoxication -- all struck down. Prostitution -- as long as keep discrete in public, or in private -- legal in fifty states and all territories. Bigamy? OKAY! GROUP Marriage? LEGAL! Incest between adults? The Supremes have spake: "Go to it!" The terms of copyright and patent have just been set to Zero days -- as long as one keeps it private.

Not bad. You were on a roll until that last one. No reason to alter copyright law. It's not the same thing.
And public intox should be fine, as long as you aren't driving or causing a problem. Some of us can get plastered and not start fights or try to drive.

[bvw]

Democracy without a slave class requires a fairly high level of moral behaviour, and sexual behaviour is a fundamental. While sodomy laws cab be too strict morally ... in that they restrict the private behaviour of a husband and wife. Otherwise they are good law.

Still, don't think that this ruling will not have far-reaching impact in general on laws of contract and property. It will. It is a theory of law that the majority employed which will soon enough allow the big fish to completely swallow the small fish in commericial activity.

Why? Because it hinges on "consenting adults" -- the trouble being that while the parties to a contract may be adult and consent, many forms of pressure can be applied by the big to force the weak to terms disadvantageous to the weak.

As I said -- not only a new system of law based on amoral selfishness, but a slave class has been birthed in this bastard ruling.

And that is my last on this.