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05643 Re: Supreme Court won't extend reduced charges to low-level crack cocaine offenders
   [b][color=blue]If we aren't hurting anyone, we should be free to act a... 		ribit   BAF   15 Jun 2021
 9:27 PM
05642 Re: Supreme Court won't extend reduced charges to low-level crack cocaine offenders
   Decomposed > BTW, some things like prostitution should be legal...... 		Zimbler0   BAF   15 Jun 2021
 7:36 PM

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Re: Supreme Court won't extend reduced charges to low-level crack cocaine offenders

By: Decomposed in BAF
Tue, 15 Jun 21 4:57 PM
Msg. 05641 of 06530
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ribit:

Re: “Just saying it isn't wise. For every person who can "handle it" there are thousands who cannot.”Agreed - it's usually not wise. When I'm riddled with cancer and given but a few months to live, I may try something. Until then, no thanks.

But that's getting away from the legality issue. Are we to be a free country, or are we not? Is it a good precedent to have laws forbidding things on the assumption that we citizens cannot "handle" them? Once the precedent for banning drugs on that basis is founded, alcohol, guns, automobile ownership, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution, premarital sex, extramarital affairs, polygamy, going outside without a mask, hunting, participating in unconventional religions and clubs, learning bombmaking and countless other freedoms we have (or, in some cases, do not have) are on the chopping block. WHO IS THE GOVERNMENT TO TELL US WHAT TO DO???? JUST A BUNCH OF ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO "TSK TSK" AT BEHAVIOR THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM THEIR OWN.

If we aren't hurting anyone, we should be free to act as we please.

BTW, some things like prostitution should be legal... but it is reasonable to have prostitution-free zones in order to safeguard neighborhoods, schools, churches, etc. As with driving, hunting, drinking, etc., rules for where people may and may not do these things may need to be established. But not banning. That's not a rule. That's the removal of a right.


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