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Topic	Marijuana legalization
kangolcone 06/04/19 9:11:02 AM #43:	ASlaveObeys posted... kangolcone posted... RoboXgp89 posted... Mead posted... Theres no reason to make it legal medically but not recreationally. inhaling plant matter makes you sick lighting it on fire damages your organs it's a vice, harmless compared to other vices, but still a vice Eating fast food and soda also makes you sick and damages your organs. This line of argument is so frustrating. It adds nothing of value to the discussion, it doesn't discount the statement made, and it leads away from the original discussion. It's not only useless it's actively bad for a debate. It isn't just you doing stuff like this, I just took your post as the example. We live in a society that allows self-harm within reason. Simply because something is not good for you is not a reason to keep it illegal. If the only point a person is making is that marijuana can be harmful and therefore should be illegal, I see no harm in pointing out the societally sanctioned substances which are also damaging. If the user I was posting to had made a secondary point, I would have addressed that as well. But they didnt. They said its harmful. Which is true about many many things. --- Annoy a Conservative, punch a Nazi. <cite>kangolcone posted [p:922770047] in Marijuana ... [t:77760023]...</cite> <quote><cite>ASlaveObeys posted...</cite> <quote><cite>kangolcone posted...</cite> <quote><cite>RoboXgp89 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Mead posted...</cite> <quote>Theres no reason to make it legal medically but not recreationally.</quote> inhaling plant matter makes you sick lighting it on fire damages your organs it's a vice, harmless compared to other vices, but still a vice</quote> Eating fast food and soda also makes you sick and damages your organs.</quote> This line of argument is so frustrating. It adds nothing of value to the discussion, it doesn't discount the statement made, and it leads away from the original discussion. It's not only useless it's actively bad for a debate. It isn't just you doing stuff like this, I just took your post as the example.</quote> We live in a society that allows self-harm within reason. Simply because something is not good for you is not a reason to keep it illegal. If the only point a person is making is that marijuana can be harmful and therefore should be illegal, I see no harm in pointing out the societally sanctioned substances which are also damaging. If the user I was posting to had made a secondary point, I would have addressed that as well. But they didnt. They said its harmful. Which is true about many many things. --- Annoy a Conservative, punch a Nazi.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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