| Super Moderator  Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Seattle (grew up around D.C.) Gender:  Posts: 8,491 Country:  Points: 27,237, Level: 97 | Level up: 89%, 113 Points needed |  |  Re: Christians and Marijuana Quote: |
Originally Posted by Steven M Come on... Just because it is "a completely naturally occuring plant that requires no human process to create a symbiotic relationship to the human mind" doesn't make it "extremely moral." It might be "completely natural" for me to sock someone in the face to release anger, but that doesn't make it "extremely moral." | No, because a sock to someones face doesn't create a symbiotic relationship with the human mind. Which makes it "completely natural" but not moral. Marijuana does just that. It is completely natural and it has a natural symbiotic relationship with the human mind. That certainly doesn't make it immoral. Why is our government allowed to ban a naturally occuring plant?? It just doesn't have that authority over mother earth in my eyes. It has the right to destroy mother earth but ban its products??? No way. Quote: |
Originally Posted by Steven M What I am still trying to decide is at what point should government stop legislating morality? | I don't think you will find a specific point to stop here. I think it would have to be a case by case basis. In regards to marijuana it is mind boggling to me that cigarettes and alcohol are legal (since they require a human process and have worse health affects) and marijuana isn't. The roles should be reversed if anything. --- help me Instant Runoff Voting, you're my only hope --- "There is no such thing as laziness. Laziness is only lack of incentive." Norman Reider, MD
Morality is not contingent on religion to exist. Therefore religion only detracts from the purity of morality. | 
11-02-2005, 01:05 PM
Linear Mode
