Posted on 01/27/2014 5:54:47 AM PST by xsmommy
Some legume aficionados are almondistic while others are cashewistic, but in any case they’re all nuts ...
I’m sorry but I’m not understanding this post at all - legal or not, using a prostitute is immoral and would be breaking marriage vows. So saying it changes the balance of power makes no sense. If you are going to cheat it doesn’t matter if you pay the whore or just date someone. All men have options outside the home Hobbes - all women too.
Wait, incest is a moral issue but prostition isn’t?
Awe, that was cute!
Thanks - we don’t go anywhere - my Marine works from his study at the front of the house - so we are snug in our home and not venturing out on ice. Heck, Houston drivers (and those visiting illegally from Mexico and Hondurus) can’t drive in the best of conditions, much less ice!
the link xs posted from Red State brings up an interesting question - we have had so many years (40 or 50?) of knowing the dangers from smoking cigarettes. Presumably the higher taxes were imposted to act as a deterrant to keep kids from starting up. It is expensive and causes all sorts of problems from gum disease to heart disease, lung cancer and even facial wrinkles. Why would we want to begin another path to encourage people to smoke anything?
Rme.
Hardly. My views of the just use of power by the State are very well formed., name calling, because they differ from yours, is a weak use of argument.
To even inference intellectual superiority, in a matter of opinion..is..patently absurd.
Which is why, i said what I said above.., did you miss that post?
Something about comity?
If you cannot determine the difference in power relationships in that equation, you are being argumentative...or..worse.
Now see, we almost agree.
And no.
It’s the last part where you achieve epic fail...
You me and XS, and spouses could walk into a bar...the three women could walk out in 30 seconds with paramours...of you so chose..
If you wish to deny the patently obvious ...feel free.
There is always an inherent imbalance, in that regard.
Puhleese,
Not everything unwise has to be illegal and not everything that is legal is “encouraged.”
Take it as a given that this activity exists. We can, as we have with tobacco, regulate and tax it. This provides economic disincemntive to the activity while also raising revenue for counteracting the ill health and societal effects.
We might even raise enough money to add to the general revenues.
I don’t think it is generational-I was a teen in the mid-late 60’s but I was never a liberal-I was already a rebel who thought government interference into the personal lives of consenting adults where it did not involve minors was a bad idea. I got that from my relatives, who voted republican-but I suppose they were libertarian in a lot of ways.
I certainly knew enough people who abused alcohol and drugs-legal and illegal, and some of them even ended up dead or permanently impaired mentally-some were my friends, and I mourn their loss-but I still don’t think prohibition is an answer to anything-personal responsibility is. If an adult is not responsible enough to manage what they do with/to their body, that is what rehab, psychotherapy and other voluntary interventions are for. God gave them that body-not anyone else, and he will certainly be pissed if they abuse it.
If they go off the deep end and OD or otherwise self destruct, I am truly sorry, but I’m not in favor of spending your hard earned tax money and mine to fund cops to enforce punitive laws like JBTs, or force mental health professionals to “help” an unwilling adult on our dime-let people pay for their own insurance-most pays nicely for rehab...
I went into social work young and foolish, believing I could change something for the better-the only real effect social work had on me was to cause me to look and listen very carefully to people as I analyzed their probable motives-I certainly didn’t turn into a flaming liberal-after 8 years I realized I could not work within the system and be honest, and I disliked most of my coworkers’ politics-so I went to the private sector, and never looked back-but even there I’ve been scammed by more than one addict as a case manager, on insurance company money, no less-until I got sick of those clients, so it may indeed color my opinion-if I sound uncaring, I apologize, as that is not the case at all...
Is it going to rain where you are? It isn’t supposed to here, but it is already really cold again-stay warm and be careful out there...
I think you have to calmly look at the plusses and minusses for each drug.
Pot compares with alcohol. Meth doesn’t.
For every great book written by a drunkard (like Hemmingway) i give you a song written while high. Sgt. Pepper’s anyone?
Show me the meth symphony that balances out the near certain race to destruction.
I heard hey had to pry Ringo of the ceiling with a a rake....
Oooh... Look at him scoot.....
/thelategr8BillHicks
That is also true with legal drugs.
I DO like salad after all! Yay!
Like if you were in a bar...in New York City?
I may be in Kentucky next week - in a “moist” county. There they will only sell you booze by the drink. None to go.
Which, to me, sounds like they are encouraging people to drink and drive.
There have always been meth labs out here-way back to the early 70’s-typical of an isolated, remote area. Meth is a fast track to an early grave-pardon the coldness, but it is a self-cancelling problem, like most other hard drugs-if the person isn’t serious about rehab, they will likely not be around to cause their family grief for long...
Perhaps they need to hit their quota for DUI tickets? We tease Kentucky regularly. 5 million people, 15 last names.
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