Anyway... It's stupid to prosecute someone for using marijuana. It is stupid to prosecute someone for distributing information that conflicts with the teachings of Islam.
Those come with warnings about the interactions with alcohol.
So now you are in favour of government regulation instead of the free market?
But it doesn't help anyone to argue that marijuana is 100% safe any more than it does to overinflate its dangers.
I've never heard anyone claim that it is 100% safe. The air we breathe isn't 100% safe. It is *safer* than alcohol as you said, and we don't put people in jail for brewing their own beer.
Yeah, but drug deaths aren't just caused by overdoses. A significant proportion of alcohol-related deaths, for example, are caused by accidents and i'm sure there have been lethal accidents where cannabis was the main factor.
I'm sure there are a similar ammount of accidents caused by cell phones. We don't ban them, but we do ban talking on them while driving sometimes.
By the way, during WWII were the allied forces stepping on the rights of German citizens when the party they supported began singling out the Jews as a scapegoat before putting thousands of them to death?
I don't think so. I'm also not saying they should kill this man.
I don't think he said he supported the killing of this man. He is saying that he supports the idea of self rule.... You may say 20 years is close to a life sentence. Despite that it isn't, it is overly long and I agree that the charge is bullshit to boot.
25 years is a life sentence where I live. We don't allow capitol punishment here in Canada. There are many studies that show there is overwhelming support for it among our population. I'm not advocating self rule, I'm very conflicted on this issue. I wish we had a baseline of morality to work from, but it does not exist.
I believe peace is what we are all after, and the current strategy in the middle east is doomed to failure.
Yeah, all those poor bastards that suffocate under that avalanche of foreign aid we send out every year* *I have no doubt whatsoever you have found a way to prove that our foreign aid is an evil machination, as well.
That's not even difficult. Figure out what portion of your "foreign aid" is in the form of weaponry designed to kill people, and you'll have it.
You say that we're saying "citizens don't have a right to determine the laws of their land."
I'm just pointing out some level of hypocrisy that I'm seeing.
but does that mean that their society is inherently just or that there are no limits a society cannot transgress? If a majority of society mandated that everyone should have their genitals surgically removed, does that mean you should be forced to do the same without the option of extricating yourself from that society?
Excellent example. What if Texas decided that convicted paedophiles should be castrated? Do you think they would be allowed to simply move to another state?
but if I am not a citizen or choose not to be a part of society, then do you think society should have any jurisdiction over me?
Another good example. Should Marc Emery be put in a U.S. jail even though he broke no Canadian law, and committed no crime while in the U.S.?
there are 50 separate governments within the USA, not all of them have death penalties and of those that do, less than half kills more than one person a decade.
How many countries that you would consider first world nations have not abolished capitol punishment?
Ah yes, so if millions demand that some category of people X be killed, they should be.
I didn't say they should. However I believe we should choose our battles, and if we choose to tell others how to behave, the same standard should be applied to us. I believe we should not kill people at all.
this shows that they are wholly incompetent and have no respect for the rights of others
Again, the same should be said about the United States. Removing the Taliban from government is not going to change the fact that the majority of the population believes this man should be killed. How exactly we go about convincing millions of people not to execute people is the unknown question. We can't even do it in some countries that claim to be civilized.
each person should be able to live their lives without undue interference from others and being prosecuted for bullshit reasoning
Please look into the politics of the "War on Drugs".
How about a Totalitarian Government Browbeating it's own Citizens?
Did you miss the part that said "Despite nationwide public support for his initial death sentence"? This isn't the Afghan government opressing it's citizens, it's the citizens asking the government to kill this man.
Which means that we are the ones saying the citizens don't have a right to determine the laws of their land. I wonder who the totalitarians are in this case.
I've been putting Ubuntu on anyone's computer who asks me to "fix" it for quite some time now. It's very rare that I hear any bad feedback at all anymore. Not having to go out and download software for their camera, printer, video card, modem, etc is a tremendous blessing to those of us who get suckered into helping family/friends.
Not having to deal with the WGA bullshit is by far the biggest selling point.
Interestingly enough, the conservatives are the only Canada-wide party who doesn't have decriminalization, to some degree, as part of their platform.
I wish they had left it out of their platform completely, but they actually proposed mandatory minimum sentencing. Fascism is alive and well in the Conservative party.
The only way Canada will get a left leaning government again is if they unite themselves OR change to a method of proportional representation
I don't know about that. The conservatives have a long history of kissing the ass of whoever is president down south. This usually makes them highly unpopular after two or three terms.
Most of us recognize the tyranny of the minority as a bad thing, but the conservatives embrace it. Just watch as they speak over and over again about how decriminalizing marijuana will destroy us all. The vast majority of Canadians support it, but their american friends don't.
The previous minority Conservative government passed about the same amount of legislation in its shortened time in office compared to what a majority government would usually pass in the same amount of time.
Meanwhile, they wrote a manual on how to make parliament non-functional, followed it to the letter, and blamed the opposition for them not being able to get anything done.
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Anyway... It's stupid to prosecute someone for using marijuana. It is stupid to prosecute someone for distributing information that conflicts with the teachings of Islam.
Right, it also includes rebuilding (and things related to rebuilding) things that the US previously destroyed.
So now you are in favour of government regulation instead of the free market?
I've never heard anyone claim that it is 100% safe. The air we breathe isn't 100% safe. It is *safer* than alcohol as you said, and we don't put people in jail for brewing their own beer.
Link please. It depends what you consider non-military aid.
I'm sure there are a similar ammount of accidents caused by cell phones. We don't ban them, but we do ban talking on them while driving sometimes.
What about alcohol + Tylenol T3? Or alcohol + gravol? Holy shit, it's an epidemic.
What exactly are the "rights of others"? It's completely subjective.
Well said.
I don't think so. I'm also not saying they should kill this man.
25 years is a life sentence where I live. We don't allow capitol punishment here in Canada. There are many studies that show there is overwhelming support for it among our population. I'm not advocating self rule, I'm very conflicted on this issue. I wish we had a baseline of morality to work from, but it does not exist.
I believe peace is what we are all after, and the current strategy in the middle east is doomed to failure.
That's not even difficult. Figure out what portion of your "foreign aid" is in the form of weaponry designed to kill people, and you'll have it.
I'm just pointing out some level of hypocrisy that I'm seeing.
Excellent example. What if Texas decided that convicted paedophiles should be castrated? Do you think they would be allowed to simply move to another state?
Another good example. Should Marc Emery be put in a U.S. jail even though he broke no Canadian law, and committed no crime while in the U.S.?
How many countries that you would consider first world nations have not abolished capitol punishment?
I didn't say they should. However I believe we should choose our battles, and if we choose to tell others how to behave, the same standard should be applied to us. I believe we should not kill people at all.
Again, the same should be said about the United States. Removing the Taliban from government is not going to change the fact that the majority of the population believes this man should be killed. How exactly we go about convincing millions of people not to execute people is the unknown question. We can't even do it in some countries that claim to be civilized.
Please look into the politics of the "War on Drugs".
Currently the government of America kills dozens, sometimes hundreds of its own citizens each year, is that right?
Should someone stop you from doing it?
That isn't a fair depiction of the mortality rate though, unless you believe that there are equal ammounts of heroin users and tobacco users.
Did you miss the part that said "Despite nationwide public support for his initial death sentence"? This isn't the Afghan government opressing it's citizens, it's the citizens asking the government to kill this man.
Which means that we are the ones saying the citizens don't have a right to determine the laws of their land. I wonder who the totalitarians are in this case.
Thanks on behalf of the Interweb.
No, OOo looked good before compiz.
Nope. I didn't say I put Ubuntu on there without talking to them about it first. I just refuse to do anything with Windows.
I've been putting Ubuntu on anyone's computer who asks me to "fix" it for quite some time now. It's very rare that I hear any bad feedback at all anymore. Not having to go out and download software for their camera, printer, video card, modem, etc is a tremendous blessing to those of us who get suckered into helping family/friends.
Not having to deal with the WGA bullshit is by far the biggest selling point.
Sour grapes IMO.
I wish they had left it out of their platform completely, but they actually proposed mandatory minimum sentencing. Fascism is alive and well in the Conservative party.
I don't know about that. The conservatives have a long history of kissing the ass of whoever is president down south. This usually makes them highly unpopular after two or three terms.
Most of us recognize the tyranny of the minority as a bad thing, but the conservatives embrace it. Just watch as they speak over and over again about how decriminalizing marijuana will destroy us all. The vast majority of Canadians support it, but their american friends don't.
Meanwhile, they wrote a manual on how to make parliament non-functional, followed it to the letter, and blamed the opposition for them not being able to get anything done.
Go figure.