There will always be people like that. Crime pays. Coffee is a soft drug. Is that a gateway drug? Why should you be labelled a criminal for smoking a joint, taking a pill or putting a needle in your vein. It's your body, what right does a politician have to say what you can put in it.
(, Fri 3 Jun 2011, 0:28, Reply)
Well; it isn't
the politician, it is 'us'. We vote them in. As for the right to self abuse, that is a thorny question indeed! Where do rights start and finnish? Should i be able to take a crap in the street? Can i stand outside your house shouting swearwords? Should i be able to live in a squatted crack den? The real world says a line has to be drawn somewhere.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Fri 3 Jun 2011, 0:39,
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I don't think any of those are examples of "self abuse".
You should be able to take a crap in YOUR house, shout swearwords in YOUR house, or turn YOUR house into a squatters crack den. Its your house after all. But i'd keep it off the streets if I were you.
(, Fri 3 Jun 2011, 0:43, Reply)
I knew
I was going wrong somewhere...
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Fri 3 Jun 2011, 0:46,
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Indeed, as long as it doesn't harm or infringe the rights of other people, and those people do the same to you, where's the law got to come in?
As for crack den, it might harm your neighborhood to have crackheads scurrying in and out of your house at all hours of the day, and it might hinder your ability to keep good work habits. But if you've got all the money in the world and enough privacy that no one will notice, do whatever you want.
(, Fri 3 Jun 2011, 0:55, Reply)
The gateway drug theory...
this always seems somewhat moot for me anyway. Many people dabble in drugs without irreparably damaging themselves, it's the people who are most marginalized by society who tend to get sucked into the vicious cycle, perhaps starting off with soft drugs. But I think it is the socioeconomic conditions of these people that make these people susceptible to this, rather than the availability of soft drugs to start them off. If people want/need to get off their faces, they're going to find a way. If there's no drugs or if they never get into drugs, maybe it will be alcohol instead.
Also, I the only thing i think cannabis as a gateway drug for is tobacco.
(, Fri 3 Jun 2011, 0:41, Reply)