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Originally Posted by transplant99
First and foremost, I could not care any less if someone smokes dope as long as they injure anyone else in any way while doing so.
I would then ask of your endorsement for all tobacco smokers with the same vigor and viotrol as the higlighted portion.....would you agree? Acquicesing the fact that tobacco is actually legal on both sides of the 49th.
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Sure... though I don't actually smoke myself, so it's not something I feel strongly about... but yeah, I have no problem with cigarettes being legal, obviously.
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This donkey knew what he was doing...and in short form that was playing with fire....guess what happens when one does that? One gets burned.
His decision, and its not even questionable at this time, to go through with this.
Do you not think that if I was selling alcohol to some in Saudi Arabiai that they did not have the right to prosecute me for it if proven guilty? Afterall...that is the law no matter how morally repugnant either of us feel about it.
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Yep... that's 'the law is the law' argument. Just like people helping runaway slaves in the South way back when were 'breaking the law', and as such deserved to be prosecuted and imprisoned... right? You disobey the law, you're going to get burned, regardless of the moral justness of the law itself.
I'm not saying he didn't break the law, I'm saying the law is stupid and should be changed. I don't think I said they don't have the right to prosecute him. I'm not saying he's not guilty, I'm saying the crime he's guilty of shouldn't be a crime. I'm actually thinking about the law, and providing my own personal opinion on it, rather than just confirming that 'the law is the law and needs to always be respected and obeyed', which I don't necessarily believe... though I understand that morally unjust consequences can be levied upon an individual because of the current laws... doesn't mean I have to like it (or blindly support it as I see some doing).