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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dave rose who wrote (17394)	6/27/2001 5:22:54 AM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 82486

Would you say the laws against prostitution, gambling, and dope are such laws? I agree with you on these - they were the ones I was excluding in my 'most'. 'Moral protection' ideals should have no place in statute. It's bad enough applying laws to control the supply of these, as with alcohol or tobacco... but I don't see why there should be more than regulation. Criminalising the user (or the individual supplier, in the case of prostitution) is IMO unnecessary, petty and puritan; it's an application of 'your' moral code to restrict my freedom and behaviour where it affects only me. And, in the longer run, such laws will be unworkable. And will be followed by either disuse or repeal.