Posted on 02/07/2017 9:17:47 AM PST by HLPhat
“If you want them on-call for you, compensate them don’t shackle them.”
Who said I want them “on call”????
Shyt happens! family is supposed to look after each other. Not get stoned or drunk every weekend and when elderly parents need help they are useless to everyone.
Yeah, guess who becomes the responsible one in these cases?
Who always gets the phone call in the middle of the night?
Legalize it and teach kids it’s great stuff and to start early right? Oh we already have kids starting early.
It’s a pothead paradise coming soon to America I know.
I won’t stand in your way.
enjoy the unintended consequences.
“Today’s pot puffers say they’re no head cases...”
They always say that - but all you have to do is read their letters to the editor, blog posts etc. to see that they can’t even string coherent sentences together to make their “we’re no head cases” argument.
Is that what we currently "teach" kids about alcohol and tobacco, which are both legal?
We tell them it's "great stuff", and to "start early"?
The Prohibitionist Mind, with its selective hypocrisy, and the logical somersaults it requires to rationalize its Tyranny, is a wonder to behold.
Of course, advocating for the nanny-state invariably requires an ever-expanding police powers, profound disregard for inalienable rights, and bigger and bigger government bureaucracies to "save everyone from themselves".
And we wonder why the Left is so successful with some of their nanny-state Tyranny? It's a mindset which infects both "sides" of our phony political spectrum, and is a very useful tool for authoritarians who seek to exceed that which is minimally adequate to govern.
It's rather hypocritical to complain about nanny-state law when it's used to attack our vision of Liberty, and then turn around and embrace it when it attacks someone else's.
Real crime exists when one person infringes on the rights of another, through force, fraud, or negligence. Absent such underpinnings, "crime" just becomes whatever "rule" some Tyrannical bureaucrat from an alphabet agency decides to promulgate.
America should not be about establishing the "lowest common denominator" of Liberty, but precisely the opposite. How can anyone who purports to believe in minimal government say otherwise?
Contraband law is a joke, and always will be, bringing with it all the Tyrannical abuses which accrue to arbitrary and unjustifiable governance: disregard for the Fourth Amendment, a bloated and unaccountable police state, asset forfeiture, murderous, mistaken "drug raids", and on and on.
I prefer the animating struggle of Freedom, as opposed to some lesser vision which relies on tidy authoritarian shortcuts.
No "minimal government" has any business threatening its citizens with prison time for merely possessing the wrong plant, medicine, chemical, or liquid spirits.
When someone's rights are infringed upon, then an actual crime has occurred.
Some adult smoking a joint in the privacy of their own home shouldn't be subject to a prison sentence under any circumstances, and if they are, then the country they're living in is anything but Free...
When does “freedom” to abuse a substance turn into slavery to the substance itself. Hmm?
What you really want is freedom from consequences. You want your pot and you want it legal and you don’t care who gets hurt. Freedom without responsibility isn’t freedom at all. Your “freedom” will result in collateral damage to a lot of other lives, especially those who are too young to understand consequences before they get hooked on substances. They will think because the government permits an act, it sanctions it.
You should give up. This isn’t an argument you are going to win with me, but I have had fun anyway.
You didn’t comprehend what I wrote. Like I said, this is not an argument you are going to win with me.
BTW. When you resort to insults, you lose control of the debate. You did that in your last post.
Like I said.
Oh we already have kids starting early.
Since young people have been reporting for many years that they can get cannabis more easily than beer or cigarettes, it seems that it's banning cannabis for adults that hurts young people - by putting cannabis in the black market, beyond the reach of effective regulation such as age limits.
Since young people have been reporting for many years that they can get cannabis more easily than beer or cigarettes, it seems that it's banning cannabis for adults that hurts young people - by putting cannabis in the black market, beyond the reach of effective regulation such as age limits.
They will think because the government permits an act, it sanctions it.
Is that what they think about the harmful addictive substances alcohol and tobacco? Should we ban those for adults?
Meh.
Yeah, I know. It’s hard to raise young patriots when your words directly contradict the words and ideals of our Founders.
I’m laughing, and trying to think of something witty to say and . . .
I’ve got nothing!
LOL
Meh.
I don’t want more laws.
I want Americans choosing to not get stoned and drunk because it’s the right thing to do. But that’s not going to happen. Legalizing pot just says GREEN LIGHT to the young.
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