'Flame war' or Constitutional debate?

vanity ^ | 3/20/02 | tpaine

[tpaine]

If you have some problem with anything I have written here, please feel free to have the guts to address me in person. - Thanks.

[tpaine]

Whatever. -- You are the boss.

[Gore_ War_ Vet]

Count on it OT! I have not had a problem with one thing you have written until #41. GET IT!

[Cultural Jihad]

New topic

[Texaggie79]

It makes a good bumper sticker and a good reply: "Life's too short to stay on topic"

[tpaine]

Amusing, CJ. -- Perhaps you should address that to the big cheese himself?

Maybe you could get some brownie points.

[Cultural Jihad]

Eat, drink, and be merry!

[weikel]

If one state legalized it would be temporaraly worse as the addicts moved there but then it would get better after they died.

[Texaggie79]

If one state legalized it would be temporaraly worse as the addicts moved there but then it would get better after they died.

Unfortunatly not all of em die. They just linger. It's like they are immune to OD. It would remain a state with streets full of addicts until they reprohibit hard substances.

[weikel]

Oh well if the cause trouble they'll be arrested for something besides drugs if they don't then who cares.

[Texaggie79]

if they don't then who cares.

Hope you enjoy raising your family around streets full of addicts.

[weikel]

How the kids turn out will have more to do with how I am as a parent vs their own genetic makeup then a few weirdos in the park.

[Texaggie79]

few weirdos in the park

There is a few NOW, legalization would mean nothing but.

[weikel]

I think you worry to much there a lot of drunks around but they don't constantly cause trouble.

[Texaggie79]

there a lot of drunks around but they don't constantly cause trouble.

Alcohol doesn't have the same addiction rate. Alcohol is used responsibly by the majority of users. Hard drugs cannot be used responsibly.

And how effective would telling your kids how wrong drugs are be if they saw that drug sitting on the shelf at the local store?

[HairOfTheDog]

I would not oppose legalization of pot, but I tend to agree with you (I think-I haven't followed everything) on hard drugs. The heavily addicting hard drugs, Meth, crack, crank, herion and their ilk have so much of their own power that using them responsibly is very nearly impossible. Meth can drive people irrepairably downhill so fast, that becoming addicted has little to do with personal strength or responsibility and everything to do with chemical reaction. I have seen it happen.

The desire of most people to be mostly law-abiding means that most people will never experiment with these drugs as long as they are illegal. Although they will always be available in dark corners, that is the only place they will be available. Legalization of everything would mean that many more, particularly young people, will experiment with it, and more good kids will be lost in the Darwinian aftermath. The fringe use of these drugs has everything to do with the stigma attached to them, and legalization will reduce much of that stigma. I was lucky to have grown up in an area where hard drugs were rare, but I experimented with what was around at the time! - The Meth problem we have today is ugly, fighting it is ugly, but I think we must.

Just MHO.

[Texaggie79]

Agreed

[weikel]

C'mon Tex think about this have you ever heard of a "responsible" use for alchohol( except to numb people before surgery in the days before novocane)?

[riley1992]

tpaine asked for this:

I'd like to call for a better definition of the posting guidlelines, and for some sort of accountability from the capracious acts of the anonomods.

You responded with this:

You should be flamed just for starting a whole bleeping thread for your edification. What was wrong with leaving your WOD battle where it was? Gotta have a thread with your name on the top or something?

I don't care that you posted this turkey in cheese-ville.

And you with there wondering why "discussions" with you always turn to flame-fests.

Does the phrase 'The pot calling the kettle black' mean anything to you?

[Texaggie79]

C'mon Tex think about this have you ever heard of a "responsible" use for alchohol

People do it every day. Watching tv, hanging out at a bar, at a night club, wine with a meal, at sporting events..... Most people are in full control and their lives aren't ran by the alcohol.