The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58918   Message #936092
Posted By: Amos
18-Apr-03 - 03:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: USA Constitution and Bill of Rights info
Subject: RE: BS: USA Constitution and Bill of Rights info
You need to regulate activity that will likely lead to harm, not simply punish those people who actually cause harm, or as GUEST has said it will be bloody dangerous out there. While I have no problem with someone smoking a joint or a cigarette in private, provided they don't go driving while stoned, public smoking of ANYTHING should be illegal.

Who has this need to regulate activity, FL? If the source of a government's power is people who consent to be governed, shouldn't individual responsibility be the source of self-regulation?

Spaw: Good news that children are no longer sofas. To my mind the hardest lesson to learn about parenting is that the individual is their own person, not yours, and all you can do is provide the best training and stewardship possible while they get used to the controls. The blind notion that offspring are owned animals is responsible for a good portion of the emotional and physical and cognitive abuse and consequent insanity in the world, IMHO.

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