RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: yet another US electile disfunctioncommentary

["Lisa & Ian Murray" <seamus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Lisa & Ian Murray wrote:
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> >Again, slippery slope to the capitalist argument......Call
> Robert Hale....
> >
> >
> >Is it forbidden to forbid?
>
> When it comes to regulating personal behavior, I'd say yes. I'm sure
> I could come up with an exception if pushed, but as a general rule,
> it's none of anyone's business if someone wants to smoke, do drugs,
> or eat deep-fried lard.
>
> Doug
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Yes it is, precisely because it is business and more. We don't live in a
spillover-free world. Ever tried to constrain a person stoned on Angel Dust
or Coke or Booze? It's way more complicated than those arguments from
liberty we loved when reading the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers or JS Mill.
You're just forbidding a different group of people, after all.


Ian