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<blockquote data-quote="Nidhogg" data-source="post: 239216">&lt;div class=&#039;quotetop&#039;&gt;QUOTE (Teh Mite @ Jan 21 2009, 06:05 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=372463" target="_blank">&lt;{POST_SNAPBACK}&gt;</a>&lt;/div&gt;Because some people are born stupid.[/b]</blockquote>Because some people don&#039;t like having the government telling them what they can or can&#039;t do to and with themselves privately.Also, what I don&#039;t get is how you can be against recreational drugs, but not against something like alcohol. At least try to be consistent. Alcohol kills over a 100,000 people in the United Statesalone, how many do recreational drugs kill? 435,000 die of tobacco every year, the number of deaths through cocaine (and let&#039;s pretend he wasn&#039;t smoking crack) don&#039;t even fit on the same scale.Funnily enough, many death reports of illicit drug use come from a combination of drugs and ...alcohol. The government in the US tried to ban that, it ended up in being a huge kick start for the Mafia and other organized crime. Now, it&#039;s just another buisness, very much socially accepted. No-one looks weird at you when you pour yourself another glass of wine. It&#039;s a bit hypocritical to just go off on drugs, and wave away the drink (Howlett smashing up cars anyone, bing drinking incidents at French clubs?).To me, that is being born stupid.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Nidhogg, post: 239216"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Teh Mite @ Jan 21 2009, 06:05 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=372463']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Because some people are born stupid.[/b][/quote] Because some people don't like having the government telling them what they can or can't do to and with themselves privately. Also, what I don't get is how you can be against recreational drugs, but not against something like alcohol. At least try to be consistent. Alcohol kills over a 100,000 people in the United States alone, how many do recreational drugs kill? 435,000 die of tobacco every year, the number of deaths through cocaine (and let's pretend he wasn't smoking crack) don't even fit on the same scale. Funnily enough, many death reports of illicit drug use come from a combination of drugs and ...alcohol. The government in the US tried to ban that, it ended up in being a huge kick start for the Mafia and other organized crime. Now, it's just another buisness, very much socially accepted. No-one looks weird at you when you pour yourself another glass of wine. It's a bit hypocritical to just go off on drugs, and wave away the drink (Howlett smashing up cars anyone, bing drinking incidents at French clubs?). To me, that is being born stupid. [/QUOTE]

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