>if you want to open a book on "drugs", be my guest, but imo there's nothing >more loathsome than killing a fellow human beings Who would disagree? >if i ever have to kill in order to save me/mine, i hope i can, but i won't >consider it a godgiven right, is just pure survival instinct, actually as Killing another human being is not the god-given right I speak of. The god-given right is the ability to preserve your own life and liberty using whatever means necessary, and if your life or your livelihood are in imminent danger, that right extends to the use of force. How anyone could honestly confuse one idea for the other is beyond me. >far from any godlike capacities as can be, and i hope i'll never have to >kill to defend "property", because if then i'll ever meet a god, i won't >know what to say How do you justify the idea that the preservation of one's own life (a precious gift freely given to us for no apparent merit of our own; and this must stand no matter what your religious conviction) is "as far from any godlike capacities as can be?" The only thing nobler than fighting for your life and liberty (when necessary) is laying down your own life to preserve another's. >fyi: i smoke mariuhana and once in a year i do mushrooms (i consider it >internal housecleaning), but i don't "do" alcohol or any other >mind-body-damaging drug And everyone knows that mushrooms are a harmless little diversion. 'FYI,' I don't believe the state has the right to regulate drug use, either, at least not to the extent that your habit has no effect on me. Go ahead and fry your brain. I think it's a tragic waste of the gift of life, but far be it from me to force my will upon you (and I wouldn't think of attempting to interfere with natural selection). If, however, you should happen to infringe upon my natural rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as a result of your being under the influence of a chemical substance, then that's another story. >btw i still think my proposal is far more funny than buying a gun How sad. �--**-****---- Paul Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaparral.los-angeles.ca.us/ "Each of us has a natural right--from God--to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties?" -- Frederic Bastiat, _The_Law_ [read it. it'd do you good.] ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done directly from our website for all our lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
