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| Naoko | May 5 2008, 12:45 AM |
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Alcohol is legal, and yet it still does the same thing, although maybe not to the same degree. I've met plenty of people who got turned onto other drugs from alcohol. It's a bit different, but it still happens. This isn't going to change if anything is legalized.
It's their body, but that doesn't change the fact that it's still a big problem. I'm not saying to make them stop. There are other ways of combating that - like ads and awareness. Unfortunately, some people are just really stupid. Whether the effects of secondhand smoke are exaggerated or not, they're still there. No matter what study you read, it's still hurting people. If a study says there's no effects at all, then I doubt it was a reliable study. Remember, just because there was a study doesn't mean it was done reliably - this applies to both sides of the matter. And in the end, whether you think it hurts people or not, if you go to the doctor, he's going to tell you to not smoke around your kids. Even if it isn't "OH MY GOD SECONDHAND SMOKE IS GOING TO KILL ME," it still hurts people.
It's not that I disagree, it's that no matter how you read it, the Bill of Rights would find the death penalty to be "cruel and unusual punishment" for someone who killed another from drunk driving. Even if the death penalty was in effect, there's no way we'd ever put a stupid drunk driver on death row with people who intentionally killed someone. Still, I would like drunk drivers (especially those who killed people) to get a tougher sentence than they usually do.
Lives saved in some areas, lost in others. But anyway. Legalizing drugs isn't going to kill the black market for drugs. It will just warp it. It's going to change and find a different way to peddle drugs - develop stronger drugs if they possibly can, etc. Although I see your point, and in essence you're correct, it's not going to kill the black market for drugs.
Good for you, but I didn't say that.
We have a lot of laws in place to protect people from their own stupidity. Curfews for minors, for example. Or age-limitations on drugs. Regardless of where our country heads, we'll going to continue having laws like this. A purely libertarian society isn't going to happen in America any time soon.
Depends on where you go. Some laws are "Freer," and some are "less free," I suppose you could say. On top of this, our capitalist economy is so messed up - the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, as they always say. Since in many of these other countries, people are closer in means of income, it becomes a "freer" country. Those with less money aren't tied down as much as they are here. Freedom goes outside of laws themselves. |
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