Pubdate: Tue, 25 Jun 2002
Source: Winnipeg Sun (CN MB)
Copyright: 2002 Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact:  http://www.fyiwinnipeg.com/winsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/503
Author: Chris Buors
Note: Parenthetical remark at end courtesy of newspaper editor.

CAN'T LEGISLATE MORALS

Harry Lehotsky must think Rosa Parks was a criminal because she refused to 
ride at the back of the bus. Hitler legitimized his handy work through the 
Public Order and the Nuremberg Laws; everything he did was legal.

Drug dealing and prostitution are voluntary exchanges between buyer and 
seller. Where is the crime? The law ought to only be used to protect us 
from force or fraud. I'll protect me from myself from drug dealers and 
prostitutes, just like I protect myself from the pharmacist, the beer 
vendor and the local sluts, thank you.

Crime implies doing harm to another person or their property. Vices are 
harms we do to ourselves. Legislating against morality always causes more 
harm than good. That's because your morals are not superior to mine Harry, 
they're just different.

Chris Buors

Winnipeg

(Speaking of drugs, there are probably some you could take to cure those 
huge leaps in logic from which you suffer.)
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