Freedom is a double-edged sword. Gotta take the bad with the good.
It requires personal responsibility for the outcome of one's actions.
It requires personal responsibility for the outcome of one's actions.
Yet there are some here who believe that government should control what level of responsibility one should assume solely because they don't agree with another's private actions.
Freedom and liberty are two different concepts. Liberty is what you speak of, not freedom.
I am not going to go into details about the friends and family I have known destroyed by drugs but I will say that there are two young children living with others because of drugs and my best friend growing up is dead because of them. You are not going to change my mind!!!!
Were the drugs that killed your friends and family "outlawed"?? Or was it legal prescription drugs that killed your friends & family??
I think the point that people are trying to make is "that we all have choices". The next question to be answered is "who is responsible for these choices?"
Statistically, more people die from prescription drugs than "illegal drugs".
http://www.healthiertalk.com/prescription-drugs-more-likely-kill-you-recreational-drugs-0112
Quote- according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), adverse drug reactions from drugs that are properly prescribed and properly administered cause about 106,000 deaths per year, making prescription drugs the fourth-leading cause of death in the U.S.
Compare this to the death toll from illegal drugs -- which is about 10,000 per year -- and you begin to see the magnitude of the problem that the pharmaceutical industry is propagating.
Might be a reasonable point if it could be proven which it can't.
One could just as easily argue the other side that the cost of saving those lives (assuming they were even worth saving) far exceeds the benefit society gains from having those saved around.
Defeating Darwin is a costly process and a futile fight as Darwin always wins in the end.
I can respect that. Your mind is like Schroedinger's cat.
So long as you realize that without a compelling argument you're not going to change ours either, I'm cool with that.
Many people believe that it takes a government to raise a village.
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