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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Beyond what PIKA said, when you're buying drugs you're feeding the war in Mexico, other violence in the US and so on. If you're selling drugs you're making bank on the back of addiction of others (victims).
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Ahh but you've come to the meeting of my point.
Those are results of the prohibition of drugs, not the drugs themselves. The prohibition of drugs has caused far more harm to people (in terms of loss of freedom, private property, death, and so on) than the drugs themselves.
For someone who claims to say "fuck you" to anyone who dares tread on female reproductive rights and homosexuality, you've now become totalitarian on what someone might want to do with their own body.
Oh, the hypocrisy.
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Overall, though, it's the bigness of the car that counts the most. Because when something bad happens in a really big car – accidentally speeding through the middle of a gang of unruly young people who have been taunting you in a drive-in restaurant, for instance – it happens very far away – way out at the end of your fenders. It's like a civil war in Africa; you know, it doesn't really concern you too much. - P.J. O'Rourke
Last edited by Elephant Walk; 03-30-2011 at 03:09 PM.
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