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To: TideGlider who wrote (422051)	4/15/2011 1:29:58 PM
From: miraje	5 Recommendations of 793868

Personally I believe there are far too many laws. So many that most people violate them without knowledge. When there are far too many laws, especially laws that shouldn't be laws in the first place, then ordinary honest citizens become cynical, and respect for the concept of law is diminished. Whether or not I choose to smoke a joint or buckle my seatbelt or cut down a tree in my back yard or disobey or disregard any other "law" that doesn't cause harm to anyone else and is none of the government's damn business, is my choice to make. I'm a libertarian, not an anarchist, and I do respect the proper function and use of law. Without it, maintaining civilized society would be impossible, but I have no time for and feel no moral compunction about breaking laws that shouldn't exist in the first place. I was once dismissed from jury duty for informing the judge that I wouldn't vote to convict in that particular case, no matter what the evidence presented, because IMO, the "crime" in question shouldn't have been labeled as such..

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