Quote Originally Posted by faesce View Post
i made that comment not because of your opinion on the legalization of marijuana, because tbh i couldn't give two fucks what you think (or if it even gets legalized in the first place), but because of the blatant irony in your statement applying to an already legal liquid.
Well to be quite honest my argument here is pretty weak because I'm playing the Devil's advocate here. (read trolling)
Quote Originally Posted by benzss View Post
???

It's a victimless crime because you are consenting to it. You're consenting to you giving yourself a joint. It's pretty simple. The slave presumably hasn't consented to his slavery.

You could take that further and say 'ah, but maybe you don't know how bad it is!', which is pretty bogus, since I find the idea that the state knows better than I do about my own body to be pretty ridiculous.



Right...
I'm just saying that the same "totalitarian" system that you're downing is the system that is telling me that I can't have 34 negroids plowing my fields right now. Also, just because you consent to something doesn't mean that it's a victimless crime. Dr. Kevorkian's patients consented to being offed by him, that doesn't mean that there weren't victims involved.

So yeah what I'm getting at is that people aren't always the best judge of what is and isn't good for themselves and society as a whole. It's all pretty subjective though and I don't feel like it's my place to tell a majority of the population what is and isn't right, although I do feel like it's my place to disagree if I see fit. You're acting as if the government is stepping in here and forcing something on people, but at the end of the day it's the people who make the final call, and government just enforces it.