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To: Neocon who wrote (2699)	5/9/1999 1:19:00 PM
From: Dave Reed	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13056

You're confusing the issue of harm to oneself (i.e. the person choosing to consume the heroin) and harm to others (i.e the person choosing to shoot a group of people.) I've never said that it is wrong to sell a product to someone who chooses to buy it to cause themselves harm. Actually, to be precise, I do think it is wrong. However, I don't think that it is a legitimate area for societal intervention. There are many things that I personally think are wrong (such as smoking cigarettes or voting Republican) that I am willing to tolerate as the price of living in a free society. Dave