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Re: From Harry Browne
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Mon, 13 Nov 2000 19:56:47 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:

<snip>


It might be that my kids are never exposed to drugs.  If that's the case,
and they don't use simply because they didn't have a chance, then I've
still failed as a parent.

Well, I don't know.  If you get your kids to adulthood without the chance of
having used drugs, then I'd say that's not a complete failure.  If, as a
responsible adult, one chooses to use drugs, who then is to blame?  Surely
most if not all of the responsibility falls on the user....

-John



Steve



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  Re: From Harry Browne
 
(...) No one. If they are responsible adults, there is no blame to assign. They are using whatever drugs as they wish. Chris (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: From Harry Browne
 
All of the following is written from the assumption that "drugs are Bad, and if you take drugs, you've done a Bad Thing." Debating that assumption should be an entirely different thread. Preferably, one that is threaded over a few beers. Steve (...) (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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