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through good upbringing, loving parents, and a deep sense of logical reasoning.galenrox said:geez, how'd you manage that?
galenrox said:lol, I meant what answers did you give to pull that off.
I don't trust the media. I don't see a problem with men being forced to serve their country in times of need. I don't believe drugs should be legal. I don't see a problem with men being forced to serve their country in times of need. I believe that National ID cards wouldn't impend on any person's constitutional rights, and they would infinitely improve national security.galenrox said:so basically you don't trust the public about anything other than fiscal issues?
It has nothing to do with your personal "support" of the "military action." It has to do with you being born into the greatest country in the world, having all the rights, and opportunities you have, and fighting for what your country has deemed a threat to those rights and freedoms in the world, whether you agree with the deeming or not.galenrox said:Yeah, I've decided if there is a draft, and I'm drafted, I'll go, just on principle, but I also view it as odd that someone would find it ok to send people forcably to a war that they don't support. I mean, christ, I'm a pacifist, so it would be odd to send me there. I don't think that's really fair to send those who don't support the military action.
In my youth, I admittedly used several controlled substances... some on a regular basis. Despite claims to the contrary, drugs ruin lives. They ruin the lives of the users, and those around the users. Even Pot. I knew several pot smokers that spent their days taking bong hits, watching cartoons and sleeping. They become addicted, maybe not physically, but psychologically. They develope an attachment to a high state of mind. They only work hard enough for drug money, and many times commit illegal acts to get that. These same people will become a dredge on society, living off the advantage taken from government 'entitlement' programs, and private goodwill. They ruin families. Drug using teens are more likely to commit suicide, have children out of wedlock, and create drama that tears at the very fabric that holds their family together. They endanger lives. Have you ever seen someone on acid, so wacked out of their gord that they play in a busy street? Yes i believe pot is a "gateway drug". I was told pot was no big deal, that it wouldn't hurt me at all. During one of my highs, I was told to try another substance, and another, until I pretty much had done everythign put in fron of me including, shrooms, acid, coke, X, whipits, opium, aderol, and a few other substances.galenrox said:Why not?
Show me where it says 'right to privacy' in the constitution. A national ID card would in no way impune on any 'privacy'. I don't believe you should be able to hide your identity to government officials and law enforcement.galenrox said:What about the right to privacy? The surpreme court has upheld on numerous occasions that there is a right to privacy, wouldn't that impune that right some?
I don't believe that to be true in the least.galenrox said:Well then I can't possibly understand how you support drug prohibition and the draft, since both are extremely anti-capitalist.
way to try to combine an economics lesson with your support for drugs, and while the illegality may create higher street prices for the substances.. that has nothing to do with the fact that the substances should still be illegal.galenrox said:Drug prohibition is creating a false shortage of something where there is steady demand, and using governmental intervention to create extra profit for the drug lords, and so basically, economically speaking, drug prohibition is taking your tax dollars and shoving them right into the pockets of the gang bangers and drug lords, so congratulations, well spent!
I believe you're confusing capitalism and democracy. People have the opportunity to elect political leaders that best represent their worldviews. If those political leaders deem it necessary to go to war, then their worldview obviously already represents a majority.galenrox said:And the draft is way to ignore the capitalist evaluation of the public support for the war. The laws of economics show that people's actions speak louder than words, and if there aren't enough people willing to voluntarily join the army for whatever reason, patriotism, benefits, or whatever, that just shows that there isn't enough real public support of that war.
it doesn't?galenrox said:And I agree that the vast majority of drugs are bad and ruin people's lives. This doesn't explain why they should be illegal.
A report on the myths of drug legalizationgalenrox said:And the reason pot is a gateway drug is because it is illegal. Since it's illegal, who do you buy pot from? A drug dealer. And drug dealers want to sell real drugs to people, not just pot, cause coming from someone who has sold pot before, there's no money in just selling weed. So they push for you to try other ****.
Now if you went into Walgreens to buy some weed, how likely do you find it that the teller will try to get you to try some coke? A lot less likely than from a dealer, I can tell you that ****ing much!
The National Families in Action found that during the decade when 11 states decriminalized marijuana, regular use tripled among adolescents, doubled among young adults, and quadrupled among older adults. Today, there are more than 8,000 emergency room visits for marijuana abuse each year, and 77,000 persons each year are admitted to treatment programs for marijuana abuse.
It is alleged that the problem may be worse today because marijuana is more addictive. The pro-legalization Lindesmith Institute challenged this in a recent Wall Street Journal letter. "The myth that marijuana is three times as potent [and therefore more addictive] as it was in the 1970s is based on a statistically invalid comparison. The potency of today's marijuana is measured by a large and diverse number of confiscated marijuana samples. The potency of 1970s marijuana was measured by a small and unrepresentative number of DEA-seized samples."
But the DEA cites tests of THC content. For example, the marijuana seized at Woodstock '69 had 1 percent THC; in 1974 the average THC was 3.6 percent; in 1984 it was 4.4 percent; and samples analyzed in 1992 were 29.86 percent. Based on these findings, DEA claims that marijuana may be between 30 and 60 times as potent as were the joints in the 1960s.
ONDCP director Lee Brown confirms the addictive nature of marijuana. "The public may have grown more blasÈ about marijuana over the years; the marijuana on the streets today is up to 10 times more potent than that available to teenagers a generation ago."
Cocaine is, of course, more addictive than marijuana. President William Howard Taft identified cocaine as "More appalling in its effects than any other habit-forming drug in the United States." He wanted it banned back in 1910. And the ranks of cocaine addicts grew before the substance was outlawed in 1915.
During the late 1960s, Dr. Marie Nyswander experimented with opiate addicts at the Rockefeller University, giving them free morphine, and saw the addicts' daily tolerance for morphine rise swiftly. Her partner, Dr. Vincent Dole, commented, "The doses on which you could keep them comfortable kept going up and up; the addicts were never really satisfied or happy. It was not an encouraging experience."
Nyswander noted, "Most drug abusers simply want to get high. Because the body daily develops more tolerance for abused drugs, addicts must use escalating dosages to achieve euphoria."
The DEA says that up to 75 percent of crack cocaine users could become addicts. And Mitchell Rosenthal believes that cheap and legal cocaine would increase addiction. He explains that "given unlimited access to cocaine, lab animals will consume increasingly greater amounts until they die.... [He points out that] in the U.S. there are between 650,000 and 2.4 million cocaine addicts."
Dr. Mark Gold, formerly the research director at Fair Oaks Hospital in Summit, New Jersey, now a professor at the University of Florida medical school and a recognized expert on cocaine, states, "Whereas one out of ten alcohol users become alcoholics, one out of four users of cocaine become addicted. If, for example, cocaine becomes legalized and use rose from 6 million to 60 million, this would mean we would have 15 million addicts in need of treatment, without prospects for a complete cure, constantly relapsing."
Dr. Herbert Kleber of Columbia University suggests that legalizing cocaine would increase use up to sixfold. And Joseph A. Califano, founding president of the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, notes that any "stamp of legality"on cocaine would lead to big increases in the number of addicts and "light a new flame beneath health care spending."
ShamMol said:Yeah, it surprised me how close to the center I was.
I don't know. I appreciate the far's views a lot because without them, a lot of new (and crazy) ideas would not be around.CanadianGuy said:really well it's good to be near center to far either way is not a good thing
JOHNYJ said:The quiz is too small to be very accurate.You need a more comprehnsive quiz to be accurate.A persons political beliefs can be a mix of what might seem to some to be contradictory beliefs.
rudy0908 said:Yes, but this gives a general idea of position. It says I'm central, which has also been said in other quizes I've found. I'll try to post a link to a more in-depth one if you want.
KevinWan said:I'm a Centrist, but leaning right... I always thought i was more conservative though.
ShamMol said:I don't know. I appreciate the far's views a lot because without them, a lot of new (and crazy) ideas would not be around.
stsburns said:ACCORDING TO YOUR ANSWERS,
The political description that
fits you best is...
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CENTRIST
CENTRISTS espouse a "middle ground" regarding government
control of the economy and personal behavior. Depending on
the issue, they sometimes favor government intervention
and sometimes support individual freedom of choice.
Centrists pride themselves on keeping an open mind,
tend to oppose "political extremes," and emphasize what
they describe as "practical" solutions to problems.
The RED DOT on the Chart shows where you fit on the political map.
Your PERSONAL issues Score is 30%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 50%.
lamaror said:I am middle of the road leftest. I see the new right wingers that have usurped the name of the old Republican Party as radicals and antiAmericans.
:spin:
America is becoming spanish speaking third world country. Greed and Averice control our government.
Heck Vicente Fox may be the real ruler of America.
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