| Comrade Tovya said: Well I don't really like political terminology anyway. I think that because I keep out of a gay individual's personal business (because it doesn't concern me in any way) that makes me even more conservative... I believe in conserving the individuals rights to do what they want to themselves without recourse as long as their action doesn't negatively affect another human being. Kind of like with smoking, I don't care if people smoke as long as, in the event they get cancer, they don't expect a taxpayer handout for medical treatment. If they do, then I am totally against it. I don't think it's my responsibility to bail people out of their self-created problems. But if they say, "hey, I got cancer, my bad... I'll deal with it myself because I created the problem by smoking", they can smoke 10 packs a day for all I care. Therefore, most of my social political stances tend to fall that direction. I don't care what a people do to themselves, as long as what they are doing doesn't directly affect someone else. |
I'm actually more against smoking than gay marriage. Cigarette smoke ends up costing the healthcare system a lot of money, which indirectly ends up costing the entire country more money since the costs are spread out.
But I'm all for the legalization of a wide variety of drugs. Its just that cigarettes really are pretty dangerous healthwise.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
