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To: ManyMoose who wrote (45136)	2/8/2006 9:09:00 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I agree with you and disagree with Tim on this issue. So if someone smokes a small amount pot in the privacy of their home they are initiating an attack against society in your opinion?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (45136)	2/9/2006 10:05:53 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Comments like the following are rather frightening because they show a flippancy, and a denial of the commonality which creates communities and safeguards objective justice administered above board and through consensus. "I do not agree that I have any onus to obey whatever legislation congress or my state legislature passes. I also don't agree with the idea that I have a moral obligation to follow every regulation..."I have an obligation not to violate others even if there was no law against it." Forget the law. He will determine what constitutes a violation. Laws can be wrong and he will be the sole judge of that and not the community. There IS corruption in government and in enforcement just as there IS criminality in individuals. Some break the rules of the game. But when one decides what rules may or may not be broken, then one becomes a renegade--and effectively acts outside of the community. This is the very thing that drug dealers and gangs do when they violate individual rights and pursue whatever serves their interests--by whatever means, including murder. Constitutional democracy is not a perfect system. What is? But it is meaningless if people do not agree to a mutual respect of the rules. If the Government is too corrupt to respect the rules of the game then a person must have the guts to go underground and fight it. One ought not to simply use the system without respect for others.