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To: ManyMoose who wrote (100899)	4/10/2005 2:30:11 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"Tolerance of illicit drug use, rape, incest, pedophilia, murder, and derivatives thereof" I'm not sure how tolerance of those things amounts to bigotry. Can you explain that? I can see how you might feel it was harmful to society, but I can't see how it would be bigotry. Further, one can argue that the banning of drugs, and the creation of a huge prison population, creation of a huge booming illicit industry, and creation of narco states to supply the industry, as well as the money spent to "combat" the problem created by criminalization, are bigger problems than the original problem of people taking drugs in the first place. I'm not sure how much human misery is on both sides of the balance- but we're tried criminalization, and quite frankly it isn't working. So, that example doesn't work for me, and I'm sure it wouldn't work for a lot of other people. Your "dy definition" street drugs harm everyone, begs the question. You would need to prove they really do, and I don't think you can. On to incest. I'm not sure how that harms anyone if the people engaging in it are adults, and if they don't plan to have children. Are you simply against incestuous relationships producing children? Rape, Murder and Pedophilia involve issues of consent, so these activities are unlike drugs, incest and homosexuality. I think we can justifiably criminalize activities where a party is physically harmed or used, and either did not, or could not legally (in the case of minors who are willing bu under age), consent.