Re: drug use by our homeless family members or friends?, lets adopt them

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brother Nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Eric Johnson wrote:

>> The fact is that I, too, wish to see the problem of drug
>> abuse go away.

>Since when?  I'm frankly surprised to even hear you describe it
>as a "problem".  The last time I checked I could have sworn you
>claimed that drug use decisions were the purely personal business
>of the person sticking the needle in their vein.

Nathan, you are again denying the differences between simple drug use and
drug abuse.

I, like Eric, would like to see the problem of drug abuse go away.  I realize,
though, that this will never happen here on earth, so we have to deal with it
in the most humane way possible, and without penalizing people who DON'T abuse
drugs.

Of course, this position will be hard for you to acknowledge because you take
the position that ALL drug use (except some alcohol use) is abuse, since we
"are not treating drugs with the respect due a medicine".

>And I am prepared for that decision to be made by God.  I'm
>sure you're aware that in the case of many of your allies
>God is a being they don't even believe to exist.

Again, Nathan, you group everyone together in a pile where most people don't
belong.  Yes, there are some pro-legalization atheists.  But Eric is a Mormon,
I'm of my own religious bent, and my guess is that we have a good mix of
agnostics, atheists, Christians, Jews, Wiccans, Buddhists, etc. (note that my
failure to mention any particular religion does not mean I think it doesn't
exist) that are pro-legalization.  And a similar mix that are
pro-decriminalization.  And a similar mix that are pro-prohibition.

The fact that so many of the pro-prohibitionists seem to be raving right-wing
born-again "Christians" doesn't mean that automatically people arguing against
them are atheists, does it?

>So do the Christian thing that Bill Hicks suggested once.
>
>Forgive me.

Whether or not you are forgiven does not excuse your behavior.

-Pete Zakel
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"Crime does not pay...as well as politics."

                        -A. E. Newman