People use the same logic to promote racism, sexism and all sorts of things. You need more than your subjective knowledge.Quote by: ruksak
People use the same logic to promote racism, sexism and all sorts of things. You need more than your subjective knowledge.
The storys been told a million times,
but it's different when it's your life
Child pornography harms the children used in its production and I agree on its criminalization on that basis.
Prohibition is wholly different. In general people are not harmed it the production.
The storys been told a million times,
but it's different when it's your life
I'll field that. Because it's EXTREMELY dangerous with such extraordinarily small, actually quite absent, benefits.
It does one thing; Fries your mind for a full 8-12 hours. If the best benefit that can be observed is that it helps painters make prettier pictures or musicians create better music, I'd say the extreme danger of the substance outweighs the benefit.
Dear Optimist, Pessimist and Realist, while you guys were arguing about the glass of water, I drank it! ~ Sincerely, the Opportunist.
The purpose of a gun is to harm. That is what is was developed and designed to do.
The storys been told a million times,
but it's different when it's your life
OK? Prohibition of guns and kiddie porn is off-topic but discrimination, you can find a parallel there? Dubious.
Dear Optimist, Pessimist and Realist, while you guys were arguing about the glass of water, I drank it! ~ Sincerely, the Opportunist.
And protect, defend, and garner food. Many positive functionalities there.
Dear Optimist, Pessimist and Realist, while you guys were arguing about the glass of water, I drank it! ~ Sincerely, the Opportunist.
While ruksak's description of her experience might be technically wrong, it's essentially correct. Lots of people have reported similar effects. LSD is undoubtedly a powerful and dangerous mind-altering drug.
There you go again making silly claims. No one doubts you had a bad experience. No one doubts others, too, have had bad experiences. That you doubt I might be unaware of these is profound silliness on your part, and contrary to the discussion so far.
As for lifting the ban on child pornography, does that give credence to the notion that prohibiting drugs doesn't work? Does the word specious resonate with you? Just a thought, but ridiculous arguments rarely give credence to one's position.
Perhaps it's just my personal standard, but it seems to me that if a case is put forward that has nothing to support it but one individual's uncomfortable experience it is a very weak case that likely doesn't deserve acceptance.
If the notion of one person having a bad or unpleasant experience was justification for banning something, we wouldn't be able to legally buy broccoli or Brussels sprouts.
I find it amusing, I would like to add, that R supports universal prohibition of LSD because of a personally traumatic experience but refuses to allow the same rationale for someone with an equally frightening experience relating to guns. For some, double standards are so convenient and often revealing of a position bereft of merit.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd - Voltaire
First off, I'm a he not a she. And there is not one iota of my description that was in any way inaccurate. LSD is all fun and giggles unless you take a bit too much. Than it becomes quite dangerous and terrifying.
I just simply see no reason why we would want something of that nature to become acceptable and used widely? I don't get it.
Dear Optimist, Pessimist and Realist, while you guys were arguing about the glass of water, I drank it! ~ Sincerely, the Opportunist.
Again.....benefit vs risk. LSD has such extremely limited benefit for us to allow it to proliferate as such, being that it is extremely dangerous.
The term "bad trip" is a common one. It is not a rare event.
There is no double standard, sir. Guns have a real, applicable positive function. So great in fact, they save lives. LSD....it fucks you up. That's it. To what extent, depends on dosage and tolerance. But all the same, all it does is fuck you up.
It seems quite selfish to me. That so many want something like that, something so nefarious and dangerous, legalized so they can get their jollies.
Dear Optimist, Pessimist and Realist, while you guys were arguing about the glass of water, I drank it! ~ Sincerely, the Opportunist.
I didn't claim they were off topic, I am simply saying that your rational is flawed.
The storys been told a million times,
but it's different when it's your life
No the gun was designed to harm. It can be used to protect, but only by threatening harm. Garner food by killing.
It is innately a tool to harm.
The storys been told a million times,
but it's different when it's your life
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