[bamahead]

Perhaps this quote will ring home:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ---C.S. Lewis

There is absolutely no greater tyranny than the Moralist Statist. They will happily petition Government to deprive you of any liberty or choice that you may freely make on your own, that affects only onesself, just to satisfy their own endorphine addictions. Endorphines? Yes...the endorphines which are released by the endocrine when they feel the 'good' they are doing, whether it be for themselves, or for 'society', or even for their own faith.

It's little different than those who enact liberalism for the same purpose...ie: pass laws to take from one, to give to another, so that one feels good about their own 'contribution', and what they are doing for the 'greater good'...yet who rarely give themselves.

Read Thomas Sowell - The Vision of the Annointed. Lays it out pretty plainly...

I'm not saying those feeling or endorphines are a bad thing...but they are when abused. And usually not for the abuser...

[donna]

Except that you are the ‘Moralist Statist’. You won’t allow each state to make their own drug laws as the Constitution would have it. The Founders left this stuff to the states.

You think the Constitution gives people the right to take drugs. It doesn’t. That came from federal legislatures and courts and Presidents taking control away from the states.

Let’s have 50 different drug laws and all the druggies can go live in California and get prescriptions from doctors to take all the drugs they like. We’ll see how long California can limp along.