Re: a couple of questions

Brother Nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'll make you an offer, Brian.  Commit yourself to non-
> violent means to change laws, and someday when you march
> up onto the steps of a Federal courthouse to say that pot
> smoking hasn't destroyed you, I'll stand there beside you
> and say that it didn't destroy me either.  We disagree on
> a great deal, but I would do things for people who swear
> themselves to non-violence that I would never do for people
> who "reserve the right" to shoot police officers who come
> into their homes to serve warrants.

The problem is you (and many others) appear to hold two separate moral 
codes -- one for agents of the state, and one for the rest of us. But if 
all men are created equal, and if all men have equal rights, then 
whatever moral code you subscribe to must apply to everyone equally.