Buck -
There's a traditional freedom scale? Freedom is the absence of coercion or constraint on choice or action. You make it sound like we can believe in some coercion and constraints on choice or action and still believe in freedom.
And yet you believe millions of people should be punished for using pot, so much for this "freedom" you claim to believe in.
So are babies, should we put them in jails too? Would you support enslaving minorities within society because they are politically weak?
Let us know when you get back from Planet Whoopie. In case you haven't noticed, the drug laws don't stop people from using drugs (as if we were all put here to play the roles in "society" you've assigned us).
If they want to have that bigger voice, they can speak for themselves. You don't speak for us.
You don't want others ruling over you, but you do want to rule over others. I rarely see a post full of so much arrogance and BS.
I'm a civic republican (on the traidtional freedom scale) and a radical.
Which means I believe that freedom is power over your own governance to as large an extent as possible.
And that drug users are currently a weak group with little power in society.
And that this can only be rectified by stopping the harmful effects of drugs, that are keeping them back.
Unlike an american-style liberal I'm not for a ban for their own best, but because I believe society would be a better place if they had a bigger voice.
I don't want to rule over them, I want them to rule over me on an equal basis.
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