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Originally Posted by ATLian
This is the part I don't get. Why do you want society to regulate what you can do with your body? If you want to lick toads and get high and do so in the privacy of your home where no-one will get harmed, why should the government stop you? If you want to bungee jump or sky dive or race NASCAR cars at 190 MPH, why should the government stop you? Why do you think that they have a right to your body when you are harming nobody but yourself? And if they can police your body and stop you from doing drugs coz they harm you, why shouldn't they be allowed to police other things you can do to your body e.g. how much fat you can eat, how many cigarettes you can smoke, etc.
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Atlian, when I ask you why an adult's decision matters more than his health, you answer by saying because he's an adult.
Whenever someone in this forum questions how can there be morality without God, the answer usually given is that society establishes the moral standards. How is society a moral standard if it doesn't question human choices?
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If they were so serious on this war on drugs, why are cigarettes legal? Read this quote - Tobacco products are responsible for more than 400,000 deaths annually due to cancer, respiratory illness, heart disease, and other health problems. Cigarettes kill more Americans each year than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, murders, suicides, illegal drugs, and fires combined. Smokers who die as a result of smoking would have lived, on average, 12 to 15 years longer if they had not smoked. Instead of spending gabzillions chasing drug peddlers, why not spend it on cigarretes?
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I have no idea why cigarettes are legal. The proponents of legalizing weed use this argument. I believe if weed is illegal, then cigarettes should be illegal.
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Please give me a good reason why cigarretes aren't illegal? Booze also causes untold suffering to many, why is it legal? Why do you think it's OK for you to be able to sit in your house and consume a 12 pack, a bottle of whisky and 2 packs of cigarettes a day for the next 15 months, but you should go to jail for 5 years if you had more than an ounce of crack cocaine?
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I don't believe cigarettes should be legal. With regards to alcohol, moderation is possible. It's possible to be a regular user of alcohol without becoming an alcoholic, but with crack and heroine, i'm not sure that's possible.
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Again, if you could get access to morphine, why shouldn't you be allowed to use it recreationally or to heal yourself.
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Again, its an issue of weighing out pros and cons, the highly addictive properties of Morphine makes it a controlled substance.
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Do you know that if you were in serious pain, and you got hold of some morphine bila prescription, and you injected yourself and cured the pain, you'd be liable to 15 years in jail if busted? How does that make sense?
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Morphine is only used for severe chronic pain (a kind of pain that's a serious sign you should be in hospital). So going out of your way to obtain morphine bila prescription isn't a sign that you're doing it to relieve pain.