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Allan from Fallbrook
Participantmarion: If you read my response on the prostitution question, I said that it, too, was a matter of personal choice. I have some moral issues with prostitution, and I don’t believe it is a “victimless” crime.
As a father of two, no, I would never support using drugs around children. You are correct when you say that represents morally reprehensible behavior. However, and taking the children out of the equation, what about someone using marijuana (post-legalization, of course) in their own home? Regardless of your feelings about marijuana, isn’t it that person’s choice to make?
I think drinking and driving is morally reprehensible, but if you want to get trashed in your own house and pass out, well, that’s your choice to make.
The danger of any one person or group of people anointing themselves the arbiters of what is right and what is wrong is that people are inherently flawed and completely fallible. The founding fathers of this country had witnessed firsthand the problems with “divine right” and the English royal family, and so created a system of checks and balances to prevent that from happening here.
What I choose to do is my business, and should remain that way. Whether it is buying a gun, buying Jack Daniels or buying a Ferrari capable of doing 165mph. I then assume responsibility for my choice in what I do with any of those purchases. I will not, however, abdicate my rights or allow some police force or governmental agency to dictate what is right and what is wrong. If you use this same logic as regards your personal choices on the matters of contraception, I think you’ll see we’re coming from the same place.
Participantmarion: If you read my response on the prostitution question, I said that it, too, was a matter of personal choice. I have some moral issues with prostitution, and I don’t believe it is a “victimless” crime.
As a father of two, no, I would never support using drugs around children. You are correct when you say that represents morally reprehensible behavior. However, and taking the children out of the equation, what about someone using marijuana (post-legalization, of course) in their own home? Regardless of your feelings about marijuana, isn’t it that person’s choice to make?
I think drinking and driving is morally reprehensible, but if you want to get trashed in your own house and pass out, well, that’s your choice to make.
The danger of any one person or group of people anointing themselves the arbiters of what is right and what is wrong is that people are inherently flawed and completely fallible. The founding fathers of this country had witnessed firsthand the problems with “divine right” and the English royal family, and so created a system of checks and balances to prevent that from happening here.
What I choose to do is my business, and should remain that way. Whether it is buying a gun, buying Jack Daniels or buying a Ferrari capable of doing 165mph. I then assume responsibility for my choice in what I do with any of those purchases. I will not, however, abdicate my rights or allow some police force or governmental agency to dictate what is right and what is wrong. If you use this same logic as regards your personal choices on the matters of contraception, I think you’ll see we’re coming from the same place.
Participantmarion: If you read my response on the prostitution question, I said that it, too, was a matter of personal choice. I have some moral issues with prostitution, and I don’t believe it is a “victimless” crime.
As a father of two, no, I would never support using drugs around children. You are correct when you say that represents morally reprehensible behavior. However, and taking the children out of the equation, what about someone using marijuana (post-legalization, of course) in their own home? Regardless of your feelings about marijuana, isn’t it that person’s choice to make?
I think drinking and driving is morally reprehensible, but if you want to get trashed in your own house and pass out, well, that’s your choice to make.
The danger of any one person or group of people anointing themselves the arbiters of what is right and what is wrong is that people are inherently flawed and completely fallible. The founding fathers of this country had witnessed firsthand the problems with “divine right” and the English royal family, and so created a system of checks and balances to prevent that from happening here.
What I choose to do is my business, and should remain that way. Whether it is buying a gun, buying Jack Daniels or buying a Ferrari capable of doing 165mph. I then assume responsibility for my choice in what I do with any of those purchases. I will not, however, abdicate my rights or allow some police force or governmental agency to dictate what is right and what is wrong. If you use this same logic as regards your personal choices on the matters of contraception, I think you’ll see we’re coming from the same place.
ParticipantRus: Puh-leeze. So this is you being agreeable? You know, when you’re right, you’re right. I think I like the disagreeable version better!
ParticipantRus: Puh-leeze. So this is you being agreeable? You know, when you’re right, you’re right. I think I like the disagreeable version better!
ParticipantRus: Puh-leeze. So this is you being agreeable? You know, when you’re right, you’re right. I think I like the disagreeable version better!
ParticipantRus: Puh-leeze. So this is you being agreeable? You know, when you’re right, you’re right. I think I like the disagreeable version better!
ParticipantRus: Puh-leeze. So this is you being agreeable? You know, when you’re right, you’re right. I think I like the disagreeable version better!
ParticipantRus: Kiss ass. You should be ashamed of yourself! And on Christmas of all days! What would Jesus say?
The word of the day is “smarmy”.
ParticipantRus: Kiss ass. You should be ashamed of yourself! And on Christmas of all days! What would Jesus say?
The word of the day is “smarmy”.
ParticipantRus: Kiss ass. You should be ashamed of yourself! And on Christmas of all days! What would Jesus say?
The word of the day is “smarmy”.
ParticipantRus: Kiss ass. You should be ashamed of yourself! And on Christmas of all days! What would Jesus say?
The word of the day is “smarmy”.
ParticipantRus: Kiss ass. You should be ashamed of yourself! And on Christmas of all days! What would Jesus say?
The word of the day is “smarmy”.
Participantmarion: My advocating a legalization of marijuana makes me a pothead? Wow, you are all for being open-minded and encouraging discourse, aren’t you? Thank goodness you’re not judgmental or anything.
I can boil all of this down quite simply: It comes to down to a matter of choice, and accepting responsibility for that choice. If I choose to own a gun, then I accept the responsibility for that choice. If I choose to own a car, and then drink and drive, I accept responsibility there as well.
What you are saying is this: If I don’t like your choices, then I am reserving the right to deprive you of them. Well, Marion, that isn’t your right, and that sort of thinking leads to authoritarianism and despotism, the very things that the Constitution and Bill of Rights were drafted to avoid.
Whatever I do in the privacy of my own home is my choice. So long as it does not hurt another person, or infringe upon their rights, that is. Beyond that, you should mind your own business and, more importantly, make your own choices and leave me to mine.
Borat: Good call on Switzerland. Israel is also armed to the teeth, with a very low crime rate. Well, aside from the Palestinian suicide bombers.
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