sodom <Sodom@ma.ultranet.com> wrote:
> It is also a violation of the 1st ammendment for sure - I am
> disgusted by the governments willingness to censor everything
> they can. (I also believe people should be able to go about
> naked, have sex in public, get high without going to jail etc....)
And two paragraphs later he wrote:
> Any young person who picks up smoking should be executed before
> their "stupid" genes can get back into the pool!!!
I'm not sure if the last line was meant in jest (sarcasm, specifically),
but it certainly seems to contradict the previous sentiment. I personally
think that nobody should be protected from the effects of their own
stupidity -- and that therefore any laws which attempt to protect us from
ourselves (e.g. drug laws, anti-suicide laws[1], etc.) are clearly
misguided.
On of my favorite television quotes is from South Park, the drug abuse
episode: "there is a time and a place for everything, young man, and it's
called college!"
ERiC
[1] I can hardly believe that attempting to kill yourself is a criminal
offence in Canada -- what da fuck?