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To: Henry Volquardsen who wrote (198)	6/30/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: CMS27	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13060

>> What of society's responsibility to allow the citizenry to live their lives as they see fit?<< The big difficulty is that the laws of society are very unlike the laws of physics. There are situations in society that defy logic. Like alcohol is a recreational drug and so is marijuana, but marijuana is banned. That's just the result of the ebb and flow and maturing of a society. It doesn't make perfect sense, it will never make perfect sense. Someone mentioned obesity and eating unhealthy foods as a burden to health care and insurance that may be equal to that of drug use. The fact is yes, those are similar effects, possibly even equal. But as a society we are free to eat what we want. And though it defy's logic that one burden equal to another burden is disallowed, that's how societies are structured. In physics each actiona has an equal and opposite reaction, in society each action has a multitude of multidirectional reactions. So arguments of simple logic are not comprehensive enough. Scott