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To: JustSayNoToNannies

Food and drinks are especially a part of culture and every time you pass your neighborhood bar, remember how wrong you are.


159 posted on 01/11/2013 12:17:00 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
So anything that's legal becomes part of our cultural inheritance? It's legal to insult one's spouse - is insulting one's spouse part of our cultural inheritance?

Yea, as Freedom of Speech.

Wrong; that freedom of speech is part of our cultural inheritance does NOT make any particular exercise of that freedom part of our cultural inheritance. Likewise, freedom to ingest what one chooses does not make any particular exercise of that freedom (such as drug use) part of our cultural inheritance.

Food and drinks are especially a part of culture and every time you pass your neighborhood bar, remember how wrong you are.

You seem to falsely think your observations contradict mine; since you haven't indicated why you think so, I'm going to have to guess at the reason.

My guess is you think that when I said "freedom to ingest what one chooses does not make any particular exercise of that freedom part of our cultural inheritance" I meant that NO particular exercise of the freedom to ingest what one chooses is part of our cultural inheritance. I didn't mean that, nor does it logically follow from what I said. My point is that if a general freedom to do X is part of our cultural inheritance, some particular exercises of that general freedom are also part of our cultural inheritance, while other particular exercises of that general freedom may not be part of our cultural inheritance.

Thus, while the general freedom of speech is part of our cultural inheritance, insulting one's spouse is certainly NOT part of our cultural inheritance. Likewise, the general freedom to ingest what one chooses does not make drug use part of our cultural inheritance (although the ingestion of other things is part of our cultural inheritance).

164 posted on 01/11/2013 7:31:03 AM PST by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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