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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: John who wrote (50758)6/1/2011 11:38:04 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Respond to of 103300
 
Re: "in an ideal case, the government shouldn't tell anyone what to do."

Exactly!

Re: Plus, if a druggie gets high and murders a family, the effect of his choice goes beyond "his own body".

ALSO TRUE.

Your freedom to swing your fist ends right about where someone else's nose BEGINS.

(But... as long as you are an adult in your own home then it ain't the government's beeswax. NOR is it any business of some nosy puritanical fool down the road from you who wants to use the government as their personal agent to modify YOUR personal behavior.)