On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 09:20 +1100, Sam Couter wrote: > > So something which causes actual harm... that's okay. Something that > wowsers use as a bogeyman to scare children and impose their moral > judgements on others (through violence if necessary), that's bad. Got it. > > You puritans are nuts. > > You're also wrong about the drugs. Neanderthals used them before humans > were human. The beginnings of agriculture may be attributed to the > desire to cultivate drugs such as tobacco. Animals sometimes use drugs > too. Look up the amarula tree on YouTube for amusing footage of some > very drunk elephants.
You might want to find better examples. I'm not familiar with the statistics in your country, but here in the US, tobacco-related illnesses are about 50 times as likely to kill you as homicide, and alcohol-related deaths are about equal to homicides. By any objective measure, drugs are way more dangerous than violence, even if you only count the legal drugs. Not that I think dopewars should be out; as long as somebody's willing to maintain the package, I say keep it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
