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Originally Posted by Grisu
Driving while under the influence of alcohol as well as prescribed drugs is illegal, if you hurt or even kill someone that is called intoxicated manslaughter and at least here carries hefty prison terms.
The other waste of letters you produced is plain bovine defacation!
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And how is this different from having laws that punish people for driving under the influence of currently illegal drugs? Why would making marijuana, for example, illegal be different from making alcohol or prescription drugs illegal?
Your argument is untenable. Choosing to ignore the logical conclusions of your argument by calling them "bovine defecation" doesn't help your cause any. It just shows that you're unable to support your position.
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Explain to me the difference in writing a law threatening punishment (which in itself tells you "Don't do that or you go to jail as it is forbidden!")!
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Because laws are not supposed to tell us what to do and what not to do. Laws are supposed to tell us what the punishment is for doing what society does not want us to do.
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Being a parent or acting like one at no time means you do not give responsibility to your child. Obviously you don't have children or you would know the difference between forbidding something and the child not being held accountable.
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Yea, right. I'll tell my two kids that. Thanks for the heads up.
Fact is, my children have more responsibility than most kids their age - and they understand that their actions have consequences better than most kids their age. I do this because I believe that they need to learn how to be responsible adults and not depend upon the state (or me) tell them what they can and cannot do. Doesn't really speak to your argument about creating a nanny state where everything is proscribed now does it?
Since we're making reckless assumptions, I can only assume that your kids will grow up thinking that it's the state's fault that they don't have a job, or that they don't have a big house or pretty mates. Since you're teaching them to depend upon the state to tell them how to act and what to do with their lives they'll never figure it out for themselves.
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If you drive while under the influence of any type of drug and I would know about it, I would call the cops on you and have them arrest you as you are a danger to others not just yourself and that is where it ultimately stops. If you want you can kill yourself but you may not endanger others while doing so.
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And you should. How does this speak to making marijuana illegal but keeping alcohol, prescription drugs, driving faster than those around you, playing with your car radio or any of the myriad of other causes of car accidents which are currently legal?