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Topic	NRA is offering MURDER INSURANCE incase you KILL Someone!!!
Zeus 10/20/17 11:32:49 PM #39:	streamofthesky posted... So, you're a small government leaning person, yet would want the government to regulate self-destructive behavior? While I didn't advocate that in this topic, I am in favor of it to some extent. It's why I'm not a full-on libertarian. I recognize that the government has a right and a moral obligation to protect its citizens from themselves to some extent. Plus libertarian tax codes are impractical. I'm not saying "get rid of alcohol," but I would want consumption rates monitored and consumption limited to areas where the activities could be supervised, ensuring that people sober up before leaving and take cabs instead of driving. streamofthesky posted... All I care about is danger to other people. If someone wants to drink himself to literal death from alcohol poisoning, that's his decision. I'm not going to try and get the government to protect him from himself, he's got the freedom to be an idiot if he wants. But I should NOT have to worry about someone like that climbing into his vehicle and murdering me or someone else. If it's intentional suicide as opposed to intentional excess drinking to a dangerous level that anyone w/ a brain would know is a bad idea, then yeah, the person needs help. But I doubt there's many cases of that, it's not a very effective method and once you're wasted your sense of judgement will be impaired. The only problem there is that an alcoholic affects EVERYBODY around them. They're more likely to be violent, more likely to engage in criminal conduct, more likely to engage in reckless/dangerous behavior, etc. Worst of all, you put their loved ones in an impossible situation where they either have to choose to leave or stay quiet about the whole thing. Honestly, the number of STDs, rapes, etc, in this country could probably be cut in half if we implemented sensible controlled point-of-consumption laws. We're never going to be able to get rid of it, but at the least we can control its damage. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| In Zeus We Trust: All Others Pay Cash <cite>Zeus posted [p:888831529] in NRA is off... [t:75898765]...</cite> <quote><cite>streamofthesky posted...</cite> <quote>So, you're a small government leaning person, yet would want the government to regulate self-destructive behavior?</quote> While I didn't advocate that in this topic, I am in favor of it to some extent. It's why I'm not a full-on libertarian. I recognize that the government has a right and a moral obligation to protect its citizens from themselves to some extent. Plus libertarian tax codes are impractical. I'm not saying "get rid of alcohol," but I would want consumption rates monitored and consumption limited to areas where the activities could be supervised, ensuring that people sober up before leaving and take cabs instead of driving. <cite>streamofthesky posted...</cite> <quote>All I care about is danger to other people. If someone wants to drink himself to literal death from alcohol poisoning, that's his decision. I'm not going to try and get the government to protect him from himself, he's got the freedom to be an idiot if he wants. But I should NOT have to worry about someone like that climbing into his vehicle and murdering me or someone else. If it's intentional suicide as opposed to intentional excess drinking to a dangerous level that anyone w/ a brain would know is a bad idea, then yeah, the person needs help. But I doubt there's many cases of that, it's not a very effective method and once you're wasted your sense of judgement will be impaired.</quote> The only problem there is that an alcoholic affects EVERYBODY around them. They're more likely to be violent, more likely to engage in criminal conduct, more likely to engage in reckless/dangerous behavior, etc. Worst of all, you put their loved ones in an impossible situation where they either have to choose to leave or stay quiet about the whole thing. Honestly, the number of STDs, rapes, etc, in this country could probably be cut in half if we implemented sensible controlled point-of-consumption laws. We're never going to be able to get rid of it, but at the least we can control its damage. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| In Zeus We Trust: All Others Pay Cash</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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