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To: dayglored
I like jokes, sorry I forgot to laugh.

You just won't see me running around the streets with anti-drug, anti-porn, or anti-gay placards. I work 12 hours a day, don't have time for such activities.

Maybe it is also a joke about being too busy to be on the streets with placards on issues such as drugs, porn, homosexuality, but since you post here on Freerepublic, a conservative site, where do you stand on those issues?

I promise I won't laugh at your response.

23 posted on 08/18/2010 8:33:28 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: vox_freedom
> ... drugs, porn, homosexuality, but since you post here on Freerepublic, a conservative site, where do you stand on those issues? I promise I won't laugh at your response.

Fair enough.

1. Drugs. I believe that all psychoactive substances, whether currently legal or illegal, prescription or non-prescription, should be re-categorized according to their a) usefulness as medications, b) usefulness as a recreational intoxicant, c) safety in normal use, and d) potential for harm if used improperly. This includes everything from alcohol to pot to anti-depressants to heroin to LSD to sedatives to painkillers. Our current categorization is grossly inaccurate and leads to gruesome accidents, deaths, etc. and inconsistent social effects.

I think that many drugs that are legal should be more closely controlled, and some drugs that are illegal could be decriminalized with overall net improvement in society. I do not agree with the large-L Libertarian position that all drugs should be legal; I think that's unwise.

Personally I have an occasional beer or shot of tequila (typically once or twice a month). I don't smoke pot or take any other recreational drugs, just my blood pressure meds (hardly recreational) and the occasional aspirin.

2. Porn. It either disgusts or bores me, frankly. I do enjoy pictures of pretty women in both dressed and undressed states, but I'm talking things like pinups or classic "erotic" paintings or photos, not pornographic shots. I am of the opinion that porn has a minimal effect on a person's core beliefs, and does not constitute a significant danger to society given that we face much larger dangers as a nation from treason and the introduction of Sharia.

I don't think nudie pictures should be or have to be outlawed to protect society; that sort of prohibition doesn't work anyway. Existing laws on assault, rape, and other violent crimes cover most of what I would outlaw in extreme/hardcore porn -- it's not the picture or the video, it's the behavior that I find objectionable.

3. Homosexuality. I'm unequivocally heterosexual, never had the slightest romantic or sexual interest in other men. So I don't really understand gay men's attraction for each other. I'm willing to grant that tastes differ, and I don't claim to understand love, so I try to allow for a certain range of attractions. But I find the thought of gay male sex distasteful, unnatural, somewhat disgusting. Something just ain't right there.

Lesbians, well, that makes a bit more sense to me, since I find women attractive, so I can understand a woman finding women attractive, but sexually it's still obviously not what Nature intended. Something ain't right there either.

I don't think homosexuality should be illegal -- I believe it's irrelevant to the government's proper functions. That sort of thing is best dealt with on the local social or interpersonal level.

Obviously, I'm not a full-blooded Social Conservative, because I'm not going to carry placards around with anti-drug, anti-porn, anti-gay slogans on them. But I seem to fall quite short of your idea of a drug-addled, porn-lapping, gay-loving Libertarian, too.

How's that? :)

24 posted on 08/18/2010 10:36:00 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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