Bob, Your bigoted rhetoric reflects the latest government-sanctioned prejudice: against drug-dealers. At what point might we hear you call them "low-life scum"?
Your ignorance of black-market realities is extensive. Casting the average drug dealer as "evil", and your average drug-related killing as "murder for profit", reeks of prejudice. Please educate yourself better about black-market dynamics. If you don't understand them, you will not be able to understand why drug prohibition directly causes crime. If you shot a man robbing your business, would you be "evil" and committing "murder for profit"? Of course not. But if your store was an illegal enterprise, official headlines might cast you as such. ------------------------------ To me, the issue of good and evil is HIGHLY relevant. While I'm not religious, there are some things (like liberty) that are inherently "good," and other things (like Islamism) that are quite "evil." There's a similar relationship of good and evil that can be applied to the drug prohibition debate, with some drug gang members being "evil" enough to murder people for profit. From: ma ni Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Libertarian] George Carlin: "We Like War" Bob, Not at all. A reverse phrasing is not the same as a False Dichotomy. Your use of "no" and "only" makes it nothing but an absolute exaggeration intended to distort my argument. The correct way to turn it around would be: "There would be far fewer people committing crimes if there was no bad government." Your last question is irrelevant. -------------------------- Turning that argument around, are you claiming there are no bad people? People only commit crimes because of bad government? Further, do you believe in good and evil? From: ma ni Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 5:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Libertarian] Re: George Carlin: "We Like War" If you minimize drug-war crime as "environmental determinism", why are you a libertarian? Why do you care about individual rights? Why do you care if we have freedom? Why do you care if an Islamo-fascist forces you to wear a rag and your wife to wear a berka? Why do you care if we aren't allowed to eat the food we like or take the establishment drugs we habitually consume? Why do you care if the ignorant majority pushes you around a little bit? Why do you care if people steal your stuff? Why do you care if a mob threatens or tortures or kills your family? WHY DO YOU CARE ABOUT TERRORISM? None of that really FORCES you to react violently. Anyone who does react violently is simply a born criminal and will always be a criminal and will go from one criminal enterprise to another when it dries up. To blame crime on bad law is simply to misunderstand "those people" we like to call "lowlife scum". Why do you really care about bad laws in our political "environment"? They don't really "determine" your actions - do they?
