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Commented on The Narc Who Got High: What In The Heck Is The Big Deal?
drug and alcohol use is not a a moral issue. it's an adult choice. drug and alcohol addiction is a not a moral issue. it is a medical problem....
Commented on Indiana prosecutor says she's duty bound to prosecute grandma who bought cold medicine
i don't feel too bad for grandma since she probably voted for those tough on crime politicians. drugs and alcohol abuse is a health problem. it's not a criminal problem. it's not a morality problem. it's a health problem....
Commented on Buy Robert Anton Wilson's medical marijuana card
@#1 - I totally agree! i've read a lot about that kinda thing as of late. dead people have no debt! realistically, if there are secured loans on a property or something like that then there might be someone who...
Commented on Vanity Fair on the fate of Lehman Brother bankers
I think that tax rate is a bit of. Besides the fact that a great deal of their income is in investments that aren't stock options, these people have the money to pay both accountants and tax attorneys to help...
Commented on Imprisoned former Daily Telegraph publisher says US justice and prison systems are flawed
there are current and former law enforcement officials who get it: http://www.reason.com/blog/show/130336.html...
Commented on Germ-free baby under glass: scientific parenting of 1947
oh look, bat-shit crazy Skinnerian child rearing. get this, it was supposed to keep baby comfortable and borg-like. how cute....
Commented on How to make a squirrel sandwich
julia childs she is not. that being said, small game meat is some seriously classy stuff if you know how to cook it. if you aren't a hunter then purchasing a properly dressed squirrel can be quite expensive. unfortunately, most...
Commented on What is on Keith's tongue?
keith has unusually large sublingual papilla. he can probably have them frozen off at the doctor's office. otherwise, don't worry about them. they aren't a big deal other than the annoyance. the tongue is full of peptides that inhibit infections....
Commented on Bananas are atheist nightmares!
ray comfort and kirk cameron are as dangerous as they are stupid. they are cultists who need to be deprogrammed. ray comfort has been part of the movement to declare that he isn't part of a religion. he does this...
Commented on Genetically distinct photoshop fetish discovered
i think they missed that one on the last episode of south park....
Commented on Prison yoga made inmates restive and disturbed
from the article: "High-security Ringerike jail near Oslo offered the classes to eight inmates on a trial basis earlier this year." what dipshits! if 8 is enough then you're all going to have to recalculate your intake of diet soda...

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Super Nate commented on The Narc Who Got High: What In The Heck Is The Big Deal?
Also, "There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that an unjust law is no law at all... One who breaks an unjust law must do it openly, lovingly...I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law." -Martin Luther King...
dr80085 commented on The Narc Who Got High: What In The Heck Is The Big Deal?
"I find it interesting that the politicians that campaign on a platform of morality and the importance of law and order support drug policy that is directly responsible for the sort of things that they're supposedly trying to prevent. Why?" Policies evolve, and perhaps this one has been evolutionarily successful precisely because it encourages the behavior it is trying to prevent. The logic would go something like this: 1) There is some immorality / criminality associated with people who use drugs (eg traffic accidents caused by drunk driving). 2) These immoral criminals are perceived by some as a direct or...
CoyoteConscious commented on The Narc Who Got High: What In The Heck Is The Big Deal?
Just because you have an advisor, doesn't mean you need to take their advice. However, if you fire or punish advisors or demand their resignations when you don't like what they say, that's ridiculous. Perhaps, at least some of the time, what's happening is that people in positions of power or responsibility don't really want the advice. They want to be able to have an expert tell everyone that their decisions and policies are well-founded, regardless of whether that's true....
CoyoteConscious commented on The Narc Who Got High: What In The Heck Is The Big Deal?
This is a slippery slope argument. "If we ignore a stupid and harmful law just because we don't agree with it, what's next? Flouting the laws against rape and murder?"...
CoyoteConscious commented on The Narc Who Got High: What In The Heck Is The Big Deal?
I tend to agree with the idea that flouting existing laws, even if they are stupid, can be hazardous to the social contract and society. But there are numerous examples of civil disobedience, and open defiance of an unjust law was a powerful and even necessary tool for causing those laws to be changed. Ask Rosa Parks. Or anyone who participated in a sit-in during the civil rights movement in the US....

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