Re: MD Real Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-06-28 Thread Andi Norby
David, I have a lot of trouble understanding your statement below. It seems to be in support of the death penalty, although you don't say that explicitly. What if it's not revenge, but rather the most effective method of preventing a person from repeating whatever crime it was they commited? I

Re: MD Real Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-06-27 Thread Andi Norby
Sam, Although I don't disagree with you on your main points in your last post about the need to utilize some sort of low level restraint when it comes to individuals who are behaving violently, I feel the need to disagree with your statement, And the fact that it IS young men who cause the

Re: MD Religion/God ~ MoQ/DQ

2001-06-26 Thread Andi Norby
Rasheed, I would disagree with your statement that looking for a way to 'permanently experience DQ' contradicts the idea of DQ. Perhaps I'm wrong here, I'm just working this idea, but instinctively I would say that although living entirely on the edge of DQ would be completely fruitless, the

Re: MD mescaline

2001-06-24 Thread Andi Norby
Rasheed... I'm a girl... are there really so few female voices on this list? I suppose it's to be expected. I realize that my last post could have been confusing. It was mostly about the idea that drugs will affect people differently depending on their reasons for using them. The last

Re: MD mescaline

2001-06-23 Thread Andi Norby
It seems to me that the morality of drug use can't really be judged as one issue at all. Drugs are used for many reasons, and the specific reason one is using a drug can alter the affects it has on the user. That is, we can't forget that drugs are often used simply for pleasure to escape