If those were your replies, then my post wasn't directed toward you.The Annoyed Man wrote:See my responses in red above...Apophis wrote:Reading a lot of these posts kind of seem ironic. Many who are for prohibition or the "war" on drugs sound a lot like those anti-gun liberals.
"Bloody in the streets"
"only crazies do that"
"society will fall into pieces if this is made legal"
Reread my posts. I made no such statements. Not even close.
Not to make an anecdotal statement or comparing micro to macro, however some "potsmokers" I've know who may or may not live in the states, make more money than 95%+ of the posters on this board.
What does that have to do with anything? Income has little or nothing to do with anything I've said. Not a single thing. And for the record, I've been around people with that kind of income too. Income ≠ character. I judge people by the content of their character, not the contents of their bank accounts. Besides that, you have no idea on earth what "95%+" of this board earns. Not a clue. Therefore, that particular statement is meaningless.
If you feel the gov't needs to protect us from a plant, maybe you should consider on the gov't protecting us from those evil scary guns with the long magazines than can take a tank out from 3 miles away, and has baby-seeking death bullets.
A disrespectful nonsensical red herring. Here is a detailed definition of "red herring": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herringRed herring is an idiomatic expression referring to the rhetorical or literary tactic of diverting attention away from an item of significance.
I don't really care one way or the other if you want to smoke dope. I really don't. It's not for me, but you're not me, so if you want to smoke it, and you think you can do it without A) losing your job, and B) getting busted, go head on brother. But if I may suggest something to you, perhaps you should not smoke any of it before trying to post something based on logic or not having actually read and understood the posts to which you are responding.
I put income down, because if you do make a considerable amount, you are in some way contributing to society. Most definitely not leeching.
I personally don't do ANY drugs, that includes alcohol, or caffeine. However, I don't feel it's right to have the gov't go into American's lives and tell them what they can and can't do. I'm for small gov't CONSISTANTLY, not when it's just convenient for me....
Coming to my conclusion again TAM, that post probably wasn't directed toward you.
PS - another good line for the people who are for drug prohibition is
"it's for the children"
I've heard that quite a few times, for both those evil drugs, and those evil hi-cap 33 round glock magazines.
