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17 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Obama's Need To Contro... · 1 reply · +2 points

That's part of the point. The other part of it is to distract from the performance of the stock market and the tea parties being held, you know, stuff that actually matters.

It's the two minutes hate, and this week we have Rush Limbaugh standing in for Emmanuel Goldstein.

17 years ago @ Big Hollywood - This War is not the An... · 2 replies · -3 points

Thanks for reminding me that conservatives are just as vehement about controlling other people's lives as liberals are.

You people disgust me.

17 years ago @ Big Hollywood - This War is not the An... · 1 reply · -6 points

The very FIRST principle of libertarianism is that coercion of others is wrong. If you can reconcile your belief that it's OK to arrest and jail people for possession of a chemical with that principle, go ahead and try.

Otherwise, go fix yourself a nice cup of STFU.

17 years ago @ Big Hollywood - This War is not the An... · 9 replies · -6 points

No, actually I don't.

A libertine would say drugs are good and everyone should do them. A libertarian would say drugs may be bad and morally wrong but the state has no business deciding for everyone collectively.

Nothing pisses me off more than a collectivist who thinks he's a libertarian. Get your head out of your ass or stop saying you're one.

17 years ago @ Big Hollywood - This War is not the An... · 1 reply · 0 points

Barack Obama thinks there should be a tradeoff between individual rights and the community too. Once you cross that line, where does it end?

You should read Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. We're on it, and attitudes like yours are as much to blame as any leftist in a Che Guevara t-shirt.

17 years ago @ Big Hollywood - This War is not the An... · 6 replies · -3 points

Conservatives understand that welfare is bad because it creates incentives to not work. They recognize that high taxation is bad because it creates incentives against earning money and entrepreneurship.

But judging from this thread, they don't understand that prohibition creates incentives to commit crimes and form organized crime cartels.

No drug would ever cost as much on the free market as it does on the black market, and legal merchants have the recourse of cops and courts to handle disputes, without resorting to pulling a Glock.

17 years ago @ Big Hollywood - This War is not the An... · 0 replies · 0 points

Are you in favor of gun control? After all, guns can be used to commit crimes. When a gun gets used against an innocent person, that person's rights are violated.

I expect that with your attitude, you believe that guns should not be legal and widely available either.

17 years ago @ Big Hollywood - This War is not the An... · 11 replies · -3 points

You should not refer to yourself as libertarian when you are in favor of the state deciding what molecules you are allowed to ingest and what plants you are allowed to grow.

17 years ago @ Big Hollywood - This War is not the An... · 1 reply · -1 points

You'd have to be a mental defective to think prohibition is working too.

17 years ago @ Big Hollywood - This War is not the An... · 0 replies · -3 points

I'm saying that prohibition doesn't seem to have prevented either.

Maybe we should seek another solution.

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