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To: one_less who wrote (76965)	4/6/2000 1:52:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

If you can show me that the regular and currently illegal use of drugs by "dopers" does not effect the lifestyle choices of innocent people, I'm with you. I would like to see a sociological study of the effects, positive or negative, on people and systems effected by the lifestyle choices dopers make. I have a real hard time believing there are not incidental victims lying around all over the place. Victimless crimes you say. Maybe if you are talking about a closet drunk and you are saying his morning nausia and head ache are no body else's business. But if this lifestyle has incidious effects on that reach beyond one drunken episode, I think that should be taken into account prior to calling it victimless. brees, this justification was used for Prohibition. Its main flaw, it strikes me, is that no action can be considered without consequences. Do we regulate all activity because of potential consequences? If not, where do we as a society draw the lines? I am libertarian because I worry about other people's abilities in drawing such lines. I am more comfortable in a society in which your right to swing your fist stops at my face.