[QUOTE="Mumbles527"][QUOTE="sca321"][QUOTE="Mumbles527"][QUOTE="sca321"][QUOTE="Mumbles527"]Come on, the right to do drugs? You're crazy. I'm all for the legalization of pot, but some are illegal for good reason. And the "right to choose to buckle up?" Now you're just really stretching.sca321
How is that a stretch? If I want to take the risk of sailing through the windshield then I should be able to. Because who really gives half a **** if you have to buckle up? if you can only think of 4 things to complain about with your government, and one of them is "THEY MAKE ME BUCKLE MY SEAT BELT!" then you've gotta just be quiet and realize that that means your government is doing a damn good job. It's the principle of it. We're becoming a nanny state. The government is taking away freedoms (albeit a minor one in the case of seatbelts) to save us from ourselves. But again, who honestly cares? Does having to wear a seatbelt really bother you that much? Did you know that they save about 10,000 lives per year in the US? There are worse things to complain about. I care and I'm not the only one. People should wear seatbelts, but they shouldn't have to, it's none of the governments business. Alcohol kills 100,000 people a year, should the government make that illegal too? How about anything else dangerous? People lose a lot of money gambling, according to you, you should be protected from yourself and not allowed to play poker. Not drinking has been tried, it made people angry...There was no public outcry against the Seat Belt law when they were enacted, so clearly nobody cared. Its just become a trend lately to make up whatever completely ridiculous complaints you can about the government, and its getting crazy. Oh, and G=gambling IS illegal in the vast majority of the country, so "good" example there.
Well I hope cigarretes do get banned...my friend is just 15 (i'm 16 in a month) and he is trying so hard to quit both cigarretes adn marijuna and it's incredibly painfull for me when I see him when something bad happens to him like an overdose or he gets beat up by some drug dealers.turgore
Theres no such thing as an overdose of weed, so I don't really know what you're saying there.
haha, thanks. Some guy on the boards said it once, and I forgot his name and lost the post. Sorry to whoever you are for not giving you proper credit...
[QUOTE="sca321"][QUOTE="Mumbles527"][QUOTE="sca321"][QUOTE="Mumbles527"][QUOTE="sca321"][QUOTE="Mumbles527"]Come on, the right to do drugs? You're crazy. I'm all for the legalization of pot, but some are illegal for good reason. And the "right to choose to buckle up?" Now you're just really stretching.Mumbles527
How is that a stretch? If I want to take the risk of sailing through the windshield then I should be able to. Because who really gives half a **** if you have to buckle up? if you can only think of 4 things to complain about with your government, and one of them is "THEY MAKE ME BUCKLE MY SEAT BELT!" then you've gotta just be quiet and realize that that means your government is doing a damn good job. It's the principle of it. We're becoming a nanny state. The government is taking away freedoms (albeit a minor one in the case of seatbelts) to save us from ourselves. But again, who honestly cares? Does having to wear a seatbelt really bother you that much? Did you know that they save about 10,000 lives per year in the US? There are worse things to complain about. I care and I'm not the only one. People should wear seatbelts, but they shouldn't have to, it's none of the governments business. Alcohol kills 100,000 people a year, should the government make that illegal too? How about anything else dangerous? People lose a lot of money gambling, according to you, you should be protected from yourself and not allowed to play poker. Not drinking has been tried, it made people angry...There was no public outcry against the Seat Belt law when they were enacted, so clearly nobody cared. Its just become a trend lately to make up whatever completely ridiculous complaints you can about the government, and its getting crazy. Oh, and G=gambling IS illegal in the vast majority of the country, so "good" example there.First of all I didn't bring up the seatbelts. And the point isn't seatbelts specifically, it's that the government's job is to protect me from other people and from other countries, not from myself. Secondly, I know that gambling is illegal most places, but judging from your avatar, you play poker anyway and thus don't think that the government should be interfering.
Somelook at police with their guns and jails and you may think that the gov't is our boss. It's the opposite. We hire the gov't to protect us from other people who might hurt us. If we own a business, we can hire private security guards, but it would be chaos if a private guard tracked a shoplifter home, dragged him back to the store and punished him as I saw fit, perhaps chopping off his hands. Since we don't want that we jointly hire a police force. We (as a society) are the boss. But we as a society should not want to use the police to force our views on our neighbors. Even if a majority don't like something, it is supposed to be philosophically wrong to let the police go beyond certain bounds. Those bounds are supposed to be established by the Constitution, but some people seem to have managed to stretch it beyond what it really says and the Supreme Court has been shown not to be anywhere near unanimous about what it means. The Constitution should really be clear enough that the decisions of the Supreme Court should be more predictable and not because of political divisions.
I can still go out on the streets and cuss out kids on the street. The law doesn't stop me. The kids might get mad, but that's their problem xD!
(the kids in question are gangsters, so its the right thing to do!)
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