Like I've told you half a dozen times, in an ideal case, the government shouldn't tell anyone what to do. Its footprint on our lives should be a tiny fraction of what it currently is.
However, the USA is not an ideal case.
When the government stops telling me whom to lease/sell my property to and starts permitting like-minded people to form private communities that exclude people based on whatever personal standards they establish, I'll stop opposing druggies.
See, you don't favor only the freedom to choose drugs, Buddy. You favor the freedom to choose drugs and you demand that everyone honor their right to push their lifestyle into the faces of people who bitterly oppose that lifestyle.
Plus, if a druggie gets high and murders a family, the effect of his choice goes beyond "his own body". Hell, the SOB would be portrayed as a victim of drug abuse following his crime, when instead he should be executed.
We must allow people to form communities based on their own standards. If I want to build a private community that excludes druggies, homos, illegals, democrats, egalitarians, and anyone else that the community board decides to exclude, we should have the right to do so, as much as anyone else should have the right to smoke a joint. Do you understand that concept? |
