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To: Texaggie79
Well, I oppose it because I believe that society can handle it being legal. I know you want to make this a "It's my damn body, I'll do what I want." issue,

Not necessarily. I just like things to be kept in the proper context. Being opposed to it because you believe that society can handle it is not the same as being opposed to it because society accepts it. Somewhere we need to make a determination as to which aspects of our lives are appropriate to defer to society, which are appropriate to defer to government, and which are best left to us as individuals. We find ourselves in our current situation because we were convinced that individually, or collectively as a society we were unable to handle it, and that goverment could do it better. Now it's been suggested that perhaps we might have been wrong about that. One of the implications of that proposal is that it will once again become the responsibility of society and individuals to handle it, and it's hard to imagine that happening because we've never seen it. If that is to be sufficient reason to oppose even the attempt, then once government has assumed a given responsibility for and authority over us for a sufficient amount of time, it is theirs forever.

145 posted on 12/17/2002 1:06:05 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic
Hey, I'm all for a trial. Legalize EVERYTHING in Nevada. I don't go there anyways. I don't care. Then we will see how many want that in their state.
149 posted on 12/17/2002 1:10:05 PM PST by Texaggie79
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