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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Its rather hard to draw a cost without a baseline. How many more lives would be destroyed taking drugs vrs the cost of enforcing the existing laws? Lets assume its drastically in favor of making them legal, thats fine, but my comments were to the flowery, idealistic, and silly comments that ending the drug war would somehow make pretty much everything better.
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And my comments were pretty much to the insanity of doing the same thing over and over and somehow expecting different results.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
This has pretty much nothing to do with Libertarianism. You can still fund the military and the police and be a Libertarian, its not about no taxes, its about not using taxes to redistribute wealth and buy votes. Its about having the government do the minimum required for the state to function.
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Libertarianism is no different then any other political philosophy, they're numerous positions within the philosophy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
And who decides what is the "minimum required for the state to function?"
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I didn't put the needle in their arm, they want it legal, then be a grown up and take personal responsibility. If people can't do this then it shouldn't be legal.
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Never said you did.