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Old 08-07-2007, 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by micfranklin View Post
It's like abortion: their bodies = their choices. If they want to fuck themselves up with coke and meth, then let them
Legal abortion kills a fetus too immature to be a person. Illegal drugs kill people.
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Originally Posted by The Libertarian
The taking of drugs is free choice. The only real argument a person could have against legalization is "save the irresponsible idiots".
Or "save the people who haven't learned yet" or "save the people who might make one self-destructive decision" or otherwise "save the people who would regret it later anyway." We don't let people kill themselves just because they don't know better. That's a useless, meaningless level of freedom.

At any rate, all of the same positives could be accomplished by rounding up hardcore addicts and selling them clean drugs, without the social Darwinist element.
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Originally Posted by W.E.B. Du Bois
I don't agree with the philosophy of "fuck people."
That's priceless.
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