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To: Neocon who wrote (1810)	3/3/1999 7:12:00 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13062

I cannot speak authoritatively about Vegas. However, it strikes me that it is, indeed, deeply corrupt. You're talkin' about my stompin' grounds, LOL! Actually, I live up the road a ways. Corrupt is a matter of opinion. Hypocrisy is very corrupting, IMO, and we, here in Nevada, are decidedly not that, for the most part. As you know, gambling is a legitimate free enterprise endeavor here, not a state run monopoly (lotteries, video poker, etc.) as in most other areas of the country. It's a sin and a vice unless the government is running the whole show, yah sure. Payoff percentages are much better here, too. And the bars never close. :-) Prostitution is legal here in certain counties, although not in Clark County (Las Vegas), by the way. No one really cares and no one's bothered about it, one way or the other. Kind of adds to the old west charm of the place. I frequently drive by the Cottontail Ranch. Red light's always on, open 24 hours a day (and night), truck parking and free coffee. Also, my tax dollars aren't wasted paying the salaries of vice squad cops, running around busting hookers and johns who are engaging in consensual adult activities. The only flies in Nevada's libertarian ointment are somewhat draconian drug laws. Possession of any amount of marijuana is still a felony. I've got some cop buddies who don't like some of these particular laws either. You may call us corrupt and/or immoral, but there are damn good people living here. Good neighbors, good friends, and honest folks who mind their own business and live and let live. I don't have to lock my house when we go to town, either. JB PS: You are obviously an intelligent (and prolific) poster, but I'd like to offer a word of advise. You've used the phrase "it seems to me" on more than one occasion, the puffy beltway slang equivalent of "like" and "you know". Anyone who's read "Atlas Shrugged" and seen the type of people that Ayn Rand had mouthing that phrase, would never ever use it again in print or conversation. LOL, again...

To: Neocon who wrote (1810)	3/3/1999 9:29:00 PM
From: MeDroogies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13062

Give evidence of Vegas' corruption. Few of the people who live there gamble. An even lower % are engaged in the sex industry. There are more churches per capita than any city in the US. Church membership/visitation is very high. Where is the evidence of the corruption? I concede the point on late term abortions, because a living being is a living being. It is sentient in its own right, without mechanical assistance. By the same token, I support Kevorkian to some degree. Why should I be kept alive by a machine? There is no dignity in that. IF abortion is corrupting, it still wouldn't be a reason to legislate it. However, if there comes to be incontrivertible truth that a second old fertilized egg is a sentient being....then it IS society's problem. I don't remember making this point with a codicile toward corrupting influence or a "slippery slope". If I did, I was mistaken.