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Originally Posted by killeena
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Sorry dude, but the french fry thing was not about protecting children's rights. It was protecting the right of a business to set it's own rules and enforce them.
As for the Medical marijuana case, the only reasons that it's illegal in the first place is because of anti-Hispanic law making during the 1920's and heavy lobbying against the hemp industry by rope makers who used flax or other materials. The reason it remains illegal is because the government knows it is so easy to produce that taxing it would be impossible. Their recent use of interstate commerce laws to place a federal ban on medical marijuana is an abuse of power and an infringement upon state rights. I'm with you on that one all the way.
On a different note, the guy who wrote this article did a stand up job of exposing gaming critics for what they are; idiots, frauds, fascists and mental deficients. They take an easily defeatable stance on this issue by using their feelings as justification for actions. Facts are stubborn things that they really hate dealing with, so they focus on instances and sob-stories and moral objections while trying to use their soapbox as a platform for further "wussifying" the already slightly wussed out US (granted, we're still way less wussed out than most countries, but using that as justification would be like saying it's more acceptable to kill a 5 year old kid than a 4 year old, just different degrees of unacceptable). Aside from the fact that we kind of need to get kids to put the damn controller down and go outside once in a while, there's no real problem with gaming. If anything, it's helping more than it's hurting. My main problem lies in the fact that the government is trying to interfere with and take over the roles of parenting more and more.