I would like to take this opportunity to point out that the entire heroin thing was London's way of not making himself look stupid by actually answering this post:
There is a far cry between my right to choose what my action is and what action I will take. I have the right to smoke cigarettes, I do not. I have the right to get shitfaced drunk every day, I do not. I have the right to paint my house neon pink and stand in a a hula skirt in my front yard dancing with a rifle strapped to my back while singing about revolution. I have the right to do those things, and those rights are very precious to me. Even the right of a woman to have an abortion is important to me. It isn't my right since I can't get pregnant and it is a horrible thing in my eyes, but I would still defend it to the end because it isn't mine, yours, or the governments decision to make for her. (Unless my wife gets me pregnant fucking me with a strap on and I have an asshole baby. Please, vote for my right to abort my asshole baby)
I have no legal responsibility to stop and help people who are broken down on the side of the road, but I still do. Why? Have you ever heard of the Golden Rule? I treat others as I wish to be treated. I look at people doing things I don't agree with and I stop and think to myself: While I would never, if I wanted to worship satan or rub jello in my ass and let some guy have his way with me, I should be able to as long as I don't mind mopping up a jello and shit liquid(remember, jello liquifies with warmth:X) Your theory is everyone should be treated as you wish to be treated. They call that something else. Oppression, maybe?
Obviously having the right to do something, and doing it have no distinction for you. I suppose you would run out and do some heroin if it was legalized.
"Oh noes, without the nanny government to tell me right from wrong I will never be able to live my life correctly", said YOU.
It would be like me using the phrase 'if your friends go an jump off a bridge, would you too' at the end of a page of information and London, instead of actually responding to the ideals of the page, goes on to talk about how jumping off a bridge is dangerous when no one actually said t it was or wasn't dangerous.
Obfuscate is the secret word of the day.
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