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To: alanrs who wrote (328855)	10/13/2009 8:13:39 AM
From: alanrs	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793916

One final thought occurred to me as I took Janet to work. Actually many, but I'll just share this one. The equation seems to be: Bad people do drugs. Bad people commit heinous crimes. Drugs cause heinous crimes. Similarly: Bad people sleep. Bad people commit heinous crimes. Sleep causes heinous crimes. I probably could comb the records for that rare case when a heinous crime was committed but the perpetrator did not do drugs, but it might be much harder to find an instance where the perpetrator did not sleep. If the logic of the first equation is accepted as valid, the logic of the second is equally so. While keeping drugs illegal may make one FEEL better, it doesn't really address the problem. But then we have entered the 1984 era where appearance trumps reality, so what the hey. If REALLY illegal doesn't work, we could always go for ULTRA illegal, then SUPER illegal, and on and on until all the adjectives in Roget had been exhausted. ARS