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To: Reagan Man
Horses**t! The 2nd amendment gives every American the right to keep and bear arms. There is nothing in the Constitution that says you have a right to spread STD's across the fruited plains. Grow up you knucklehead!

I didn't say anything about the Constitution at all, let alone that there was such a right; that's a red herring logical fallacy.

What I said was, your statement that legalized prostitution will lead to the spread of STDs is the equal of statements from the gun grabbers that legalized conceal carry will lead to shootouts and blood in the streets: vivid, emotionally powerful, and empirically wrong based on the observed facts. My comparison has to do with the asserted negative consequences of a policy, not with rights and certainly nothing to do with Constitutional rights. You attempt to whip up fear, which by the way isn't factually founded or justified, in trying to keep prostitution illegal, the same way they would whip up false fears about concealed carry. You, like they, are lying in order to prevent a something from becoming legal.

You might consider using logical fallacies less if you wish to bash libertarians as non-logical debaters. Or, libertarians aside, if you wish to have rational support for your political positions.

99 posted on 11/18/2002 6:45:23 AM PST by coloradan
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To: coloradan
>>>You, like they, are lying in order to prevent a something from becoming legal.

First off, I haven't lied about anything. I have only spoken the truth and that truth is quite clear. The legalization of prostitution would not end the spread of STD's. Nor would it end illegal prostitution either. Your analogy to concealed firearm permits is convoluted reasoning, only a libertarian mindset could fabricate. The vast majority of American's have a moral value system and oppose behavior that is both wrong and harmful. This seems to upset you. Well, too bad. It would appear you have much in common with the immoral values espoused by liberals. So be it.

>>>You might consider using logical fallacies less if you wish to bash libertarians as non-logical debaters. Or, libertarians aside, if you wish to have rational support for your political positions.

The libertarian philosophy has never been accepted by the American people and never will be, beyond the extremist fringe faction. Libertarian politics is for all practical purposes, nonexistent. As with liberalism, there's nothing rational or logical about libertarianism.

And I'm very satisfied with my conservative values and the political positions those values represent. I will continue to defend them.

I'm sure you have more gibberish in your bag of rhetorical nonsense. Rant on!

112 posted on 11/18/2002 9:20:42 AM PST by Reagan Man
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