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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Remember how we Republicans joke around that we are not the party that reads daily polls to find out what positions we should take? Well, just on the off-chance that you or someone else here didn't get it, its supposed to pose a complete contrast between our solid law-abiding moral stance as a party and the shifty murky lie-when-you-can-get-away-with-it and there-is-no-such-thing-as-morality stance of the Clinton era.
In other words, Clinton did whatever the polls said to do, and that ain't us. See where I'm going now? If the polls told Clinton to eliminate the war on drugs entirely, he would at least have raised the idea. Instead, he didn't touch it with a ten foot stick. Nor has any other mainstream party leader.
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This was not a poll. It was a vote, put to the great people of California (i.e., should mj be legal for medicinal purposes). The great people of CA said yes.
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But there is no way that doing drugs can be described as "moral"; so if its against the law to do drugs, I'm pretty content thinking that its moral to obey the law and not-moral not to. And Republicans, Democrats, martians or anybody else better think long-and-hard before giving a blanket pass to lawbreakers, particularly when the lawbreaking activity does not provide any documented positive effect to society. Sitting at the front of the bus this is not, and I'd hate to think that you or any other solid rightist would argue that merely-self-gratifying (but illegal) behavior should not be counted as a strike against a candidate for our nation's leadership.
Or do you (or anyone else here) see this as something other than merely-self-gratifying behavior? Do junkies provide some societal benefit of which I'm not aware?
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I don't think its either moral or immoral, it just is. What is immoral about the act of doing drugs? Why is it different than alcohol, or prescription drugs for that matter. Your argument seems to be that it is illegal ergo immoral, but there is really no rhyme or reason as to why certain drugs are legal and others not, and it is certainly not based on any concept of morality.
Now, it is certainly true that certain actions taken by drug users are immoral. But that is a far cry from saying that the act of taken drugs themselves is immoral.
