Voltare
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Ahh, this will be like shooting fish in a barrel.
T,
I agree in theory that less rules is generally better than more. The more rules we impose, the less capable our society is in enforcing them. However, there is an obligation for the government to set rules to ensure people don't die (and subsequently sue the restaurant, oil company, and health department.) That's the only real motivation behind legislation.
However, your position on rights is unsupportable, egotistical, and irresponsible, and downright selfish.
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You see, I'll put it this way, I don't like cocaine. I do it from time to time but it is not my favorite buzz. It is OK.
I believe we should legalize drugs, so that they aren't sold by pimps and pushers in the middle of the street, and so the profits don't end up buying bullets that shoot our troops. Our war on drugs has failed to control the huge demand - proving our current policies to be a failure in terms of law enforcement. It isn't the cops fault, it's our own puritanical values which has you so irked.
Personally, it doesn't bother me that people do cocaine. It bothers me that those same people expect to clog our hospitals (risking our lives) when they OD. People dying of cocaine induced heart attacks should be denied public hospital access and HMO coverage - and be forced to carry the financial burden of their own choices. I think the same should go for smokers and alcohol related illnesses. I also think that the prices for these various drugs should be fixed, taxed at an incredible rate, and the tax revenue get pumped into free rehab clinics, and to cover financial damages that result from substance abuse. If people have to pay for the consequences of their habits up front, they might be less inclined to start. If comprehensive rehabilitation programs (from entrance as junkie to six month later exit with job skills and one month on a paid position) were used, we'd all save money with more than a third of our prison population earning tax dollars with real jobs instead of being used as O2-CO2 converters.
The rest of your assertions are garbage.
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I have the RIGHT to drive out of my mind drunk, right next to your car, in something big and powerful, when I can't even walk because I am so fucked up. I have the right to do this, what I do not have the right to do is to screw up. Do I have that right when sober ?To just say, 'fukit, I'm gonna hit that car'. Of course not.
By law and custom, nobody has the right to engage in reckless behavior. The anti-drunk driving laws aren't meant to punish people, they're meant to reduce the actual number of (all senseless) deaths due to idiots like you believing you drive just as well drunk as you do sober.
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I have the RIGHT to sit right next to you at a movie theater with an AK47 and ten stripper clips. I did not say I had the right to shoot it off.
I actually have the legal right (with a great deal of legal precedence) to arrest you if I see you walking towards me with said AK-47 and clips. It's illegal to carry automatic weapons in public, a felony weapons charge, and citizens are permitted to make arrests (using the same techniques and restrictions as a law enforcement officer.) Your attempt to resist such an arrest, holding said gun in your hands, would constitute a deadly threat to public safety. I won't elaborate, due to this site's TOS, but I was in the Marines - how about you?
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I have the RIGHT to do any drug I want in my own house, whether it has transfat in it or not. I did not say your house.
Sure, I agree. I hope you enjoy that right liberally. You don't have the right to expose your children to it, though, and the moment you're behind the wheel because you have the munchies, you're no longer in your own home. It's fine if you want to kill yourself, but not fine that you kill your neighbor in the process.
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Now let's get to the family credo.
I have the RIGHT to blow your head clean off, as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences.
I wouldn't call that a right. I'd call it ego.
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I have the RIGHT to run the cops on a 130MPH goose chase if I know where there are some underground tunnels I can get to (can't jam the radio anymore, they use spread spectrum).
On your own dirt road racetrack, sure. On public highways, I only hope it's your truck they slam into when someone else decides to exercise your perceived right.
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I have the RIGHT to do anything I damnwell please, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone.
Considering the degree with which you don't value human life, I can only imagine the number of broken mailboxes, knocked over old women, and crying little girls you leave in your wake. You don't have world war II flashbacks of wearing an ugly, stubby little mustache, do you?
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I take that right, every day. I do exactly as I please. Within limits of course. I am not afraid. The only reason I do not hurt anyone is that I simply do not want to. I really don't.
Of course not, it's their own fault if they trip over your path of destruction.
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Next my thoughts will be illegal, and yes, they are working on that.
No, by all means - your thoughts aren't quite bordering on sociopathic yet.
< Message edited by Voltare -- 12/18/2006 6:17:29 AM >
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