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To: marek_wojna who wrote (55936)	10/6/2009 6:52:11 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217801

Marek, there's a very popular cultural norm these days that people are mindless automatons who are doped by somebody else with whatever caused the problem. So CB's indebted bankrupts blamed HSBC or the government or capitalists or anybody but themselves. Opium addicts blame those selling them their fix. I would like it if these mindless people would sign up with me and I would order them about, but in fact, they do have minds and they are in fact deciding for themselves what to ingest. I don't see why people who choose to buy and ingest cocaine or opium or tobacco or booze should be hassled by me or anyone else. It's their own body they are choosing to mess with. Me paying police to chase people who buy the stuff and then paying courts and gaolers is really annoying. The whole nonsense just encourages more of it by forcing prices and profits to huge amounts for those who can get away with it. Where there's money to be had, in large amounts, swarms of people will crowd in. Making things illegal encourages consumption too on the forbidden fruit principle. Tell people they aren't allowed and they'll immediately wonder why and challenge the proclamation. You seem to be a conspiracist. <That drug is another of the inventions to make humanity weaker. > It is actually intended to make profits and does so. Those who take it are mostly weakened from old age and there isn't a lot to be done about that. Do you think that it's a Made in China conspiracy to weaken the free world? Or is somebody else the evil-doing plotter for weakness? Mqurice