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To: jpsb
fatty food is bad for you too, sugar is a killer, caffeine dido and there is mercury in fish don’t ya know. No one should be allowed to ride a bike without a helmet, don’t forget to always walk with the traffic and only cross at the light. Oh do not even think about trying that black slope when all you have is a federally issued green slope license.

Because we regulate dangerous addictive drugs that not only kill the body, but destroy families and institutions, that does not mean we need to regulate everything. Your comparisons are as ludicrous as comparing pop-tarts to hand grenades in terms of danger to life and limb and show that you have no sense of discernment. There is a role for government, though considerably rolled back from where we are now. Conservatives are not anarchists.

Idiotic arguments like this are why I have no truck with libertarians.
144 posted on 02/01/2012 9:18:45 AM PST by Antoninus (Mitt Romney -- attempting to execute a hostile take-over of the Republican Party.)
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To: Antoninus

You are a idiot


145 posted on 02/01/2012 9:35:42 AM PST by jpsb
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To: Antoninus
Because we regulate

You mean prohibit.

dangerous addictive drugs that not only kill the body, but destroy families and institutions

Except when we don't - as in the case of alcohol. We were wise enough to see that prohibiting that drug did little good and much harm, and we should be similarly wise with regard to other drugs.

158 posted on 02/01/2012 11:36:28 AM PST by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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