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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (2982)	10/17/2006 12:49:58 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 10087

There are any number of things that I think that people should be free to do, that they are not free to do. However most of them are things that I don't want to do (at least currently), or can't easily do. One person mentioned seatbelt laws. I'm against them, but I would wear a seatbelt either way. Limiting it to things that have any potential impact on my personal actions... Well that makes the list a lot smaller. I don't want to use illegal drugs, I've never had any particular idea that I should go out and hire a prostitute. I don't own a gun, or plan to have one so restrictions on owning or carrying guns don't directly effect me as much. I'm against gun control, laws against marijuana use/possession/sales, and laws against prostitution, but their immediate direct impact on me isn't great. I suppose I'd like to be able to buy prescription drugs without prescription but again it would be a relatively rare event. I'm against conscription (and thus against required registration), but at 38 I'm not very sure this would be a personal issue anymore. In my personal life its more a matter of taxes, and government hassle, than it is some activity which I want to do SO MUCH, but the "bad government" won't let me do. I'd like to be able to legally drive faster when conditions allow. I'd like to have the Digital Millennium Copyright Act scrapped, which would allow technical solutions which promote a greater degree of fair use, and allow devices that would enable moving of content around to different devices legally and with much less difficulty. I'd to have the amount of reporting, and paperwork required by the government reduced (if "not paying taxes" is off limits maybe not having to make a lot of effort to maintain and submit documents, and report income) isn't. I'd like to be able to buy hard alcohol from regular stores rather than ABCs (but this is only borderline in terms of effecting me as I rarely buy even beer or wine, and have only bought the harder stuff maybe 3 times in my life).