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   ReFlex-76 said, about 1 year ago

   - Assisted Suicide: Oregon
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   - Prostitution: Nevada
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   - Whole country? Hell yes!
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   Pharmakeus Ubik said, about 1 year ago

   Bestiality: Round Santorum’s place, every Thursday.
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   Rad-ish said, about 1 year ago

   Legal weed in Washington state (if you can find a magic ounce) and Colorado.
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   BrassOrchid said, about 1 year ago

   Unless government action, the faintest possibility of societal harm or abuse justifies a legal remedy. Harmful and abusive laws are exempt from this because they, being the law, are above the law. A free people are their own legal authority in theory, but not in practice where others know better, what is good and what is evil. Superior morality presumes a divine right to rule as a matter of noble purpose.
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   masterskrain said, about 1 year ago

   Isn’t it amazing how hyper-conservatives can link totally unrelated things together??
   (unless it affects THEM personally, that is…)
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   Ken M said, about 1 year ago

   Here’s one to chew on, Matty… what if a grown man, let’s say he’s 40, falls in love with his son, who’s 22 (and the son feels likewise). Why not let the father get divorced, ripping apart the family, and marry his son? There’s no risk of any genetic mishap since they won’t naturally, biologically be able to have children. Anyone see any problem with that? According to all of the gay marriage supporters, this should simply be an issue concerning the rights of two consenting adults… right?
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   Larry said, about 1 year ago

   Yet gambling has become legal.
   How do the religious allow that?
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   Newenglandah said, about 1 year ago

   @Ken M

   What is it about the word “consent” that throws the right wing? Do they not understand that a son cannot give “consent” to a father? Do they not understand the difference between consent and child abuse? No one is going to marry their son or their goat or their car because marriage involves “consent” (unless the right wing wants to go back to the day when a daughter married whoever her father chose, as depicted in “Fiddler on the Roof”).
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   Jase99 said, about 1 year ago

   @Ken M

   Father still has a position of authority over the son. Anyway, why do you care? Is your marriage so bad that you think your wife will leave you the second she can marry a woman? Do you need to make yourself feel better by judging others?
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    Griff said, about 1 year ago

    Get the Gov’t off our backs is what they want right?
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    dtroutma said, about 1 year ago

    My state allows “death with dignity”, although the methods are limited by restrictions that make no medical sense, because “conservatives” got some of their way to get the bill passed. Where prostitution is legal, like some, but not all, counties in Nevada, violence goes down. Pot REDUCES violent tendencies in the user, while meth, and many legal drugs INCREASE violent, including self-harming, tendencies. (Watch the TV ads on all those “anti-depressants” that can lead users to suicide.)

    
    While I’ve long supported “civil unions” for anyone, the verbiage, not the underlying facts, DO make “marriage” more of a religious, rather than “legal”, term.

    
    The fundamental hypothesis of “Libertarian” is “live and let live (or die)”, as one would choose for themselves, if it harms nobody else, or society at large, or well, the environment we all share. Intelligently applied, it’s the “liberal” basis for most of our Constitution. Liberals and Libertarians have no problem applying logic, and freedom. It IS “conservatives” and strict religionists (doesn’t really equate to “faithful”) who want to deny INDIVIDUAL freedoms.

    
    Please note again the “do no harm” element of laws to grant freedoms, while NOT harming “others”.
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    Rad-ish said, about 1 year ago

    @Ken M

    There are already laws against incest.
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    d_legendary1 Demands Dr.C and Martens Release said, about 1 year ago

    @Newenglandah

    Not just Fiddler on the Roof. Their Holy Book tells them to do so.
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    d_legendary1 Demands Dr.C and Martens Release said, about 1 year ago

    @Larry

    “Yet gambling has become legal.
    How do the religious allow that?”

    
    

    In Florida we had a crooked gubbernor who legalized gambling for the Native American tribes. And the Bible Thumping red necks don’t seem to mind since “it brings money to the state via tourism dollars.”
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    BrassOrchid said, about 1 year ago

    @jimschampanese

    I can’t claim credit. I plagiarized it outright from Genesis. Those who have eaten of the fruit and know both good and evil are prevented from finding paradise by their very own angelic sword of enlightenment. Live and let live isn’t in their credo.
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