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Originally Posted by sgtdmski  What of those things that you do to yourself that then affect others?? Drinking alcohol is legal, drinking alcohol and then driving is not legal. One could use your argument to defend the banning of such laws. Part of living in a society is the consent of one to certain freedoms for the protection of other freedoms. Without the protection of government to secure these freedoms, all your freedoms would be at stake. Here in lies the contradiction. Sacrificing full liberty, for a more secure liberty.
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If you read what I said carefully, I mention that those things that impune the safety or freedoms of others should be outlawed. That would clearly cover driving while intoxicated, would it not? If you have access to heroin and want to sleep your existence away, so be it. If your need for heroin puts you behind the wheel of a car while intoxicated or engaging in criminal activity to secure it, then you are certainly violating logical and just laws. Like I said, it's a pretty simple argument.
There can be no complete liberty, as that would equate to anarchy. But our government today goes beyond restricting liberty by criminalizing things that do no harm to anyone but the individual committing "a crime against themself" and that is absurd in a supposedly free society. It also sets the stage for organized crime to take place.