[Mariner]

"The truth is if mankind cannot control themselves, laws will"

So would disagree with your contention and counter that is not a founding principle of our nation.

They would also argue that what an individual does is his business alone if it does not harm another. And any attempt to control it would be considered a violent assault.

Some of these crazy folks actually believe that mankind should control the law...and how/when/if it's enforced.

James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were two.

[DJ MacWoW]

Guess what? People then weren't pot heads. They had morals. The founders talked about "when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders"

We're there. And people like you helped.

Laws aren't to protect you from yourself. They're to protect the rest of us when you're higher than a kite.

[itsahoot]

James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were two.

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --October 11, 1798 John Adams