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To: Crackingham
"We are supposed to be in a free country ..."

We are. You happen to be in a not-so-free state.

Now, the beauty of federalism is ... you can move to another state if this issue is that important to you!

Certainly the people of South Carolina can decide through the legislative process how they want to live. You wouldn't deny them that, would you?

Are you saying that you should you be allowed to force your perversions on them in the name of "freedom"? What, freedom for me but not for thee?

17 posted on 04/23/2006 6:08:44 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen

Your argument only makes sense if the law was stating you had to buy sex toys when you didn't want them. If you don't want them, don't buy them. If you want them, there should be no prohibtion against buying them: like cigarettes, I suppose.


22 posted on 04/23/2006 6:14:44 AM PDT by Salo (Then they came for the inflatables....but I was silent because I was not an inflatable....)
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To: robertpaulsen
Now, the beauty of federalism is ... you can move to another state if this issue is that important to you!

While I disagree with this law as a general principle because it's heavy-handed nanny-statism, I agree with your comments because I do like the idea of states' rights.

The states should be able to regulate the moral and legal tone that represents the will of the people in those states -- including regulation of abortion, legalization of marijuana, etc.

If we're going to believe in a principle, we need to be consistent.

39 posted on 04/23/2006 6:47:04 AM PDT by Ryan Spock (Former Internet Addict -- Making good progress with help from an online support group)
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To: robertpaulsen
"We are supposed to be in a free country ..."

"We are...."

That's right, we're free to do whatever the government lets us do.

185 posted on 04/23/2006 12:24:35 PM PDT by Mikey (Freedom isn't free, but slavery is.)
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To: robertpaulsen
Are you saying that you should you be allowed to force your perversions on them in the name of "freedom"?

So your position is that the private ownership of sex toys by others is somehow forcing perversion on you?

268 posted on 04/23/2006 5:22:49 PM PDT by Heyworth
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To: robertpaulsen
Certainly the people of South Carolina can decide through the legislative process how they want to live.

Nope. They have a right to decide as individuals how they want to live; no more.

305 posted on 04/24/2006 5:59:09 AM PDT by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: robertpaulsen
Are you saying that you should you be allowed to force your perversions on them in the name of "freedom"?

So selling them is forcing perversions on people now? So that would mean that selling guns is forcing death on people (if you are anti-gun person) or selling tobacco is forcing people to smoke or selling burgers and junk food is forcing people to become fat? Get a grip.

388 posted on 04/25/2006 6:14:32 PM PDT by looscnnn ("Olestra (Olean) applications causes memory leaks" PC Confusious)
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