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Re: From Harry Browne
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:54:37 GMT
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johnneal@uswest.net+Spamcake+
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Christopher Weeks wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
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> > > > If, as a
> > > > responsible adult, one chooses to use drugs, who then is to blame?
> > >
> > > No one. If they are responsible adults, there is no blame to assign. They • are
> > > using whatever drugs as they wish.
> >
> > I was hoping for the "no one to blame but themselves" response. "no one" • makes it
> > sound like it isn't the individual's responsibility.
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> From this note and the couple of replies, it sounds like you think that "blame"
> is somehow synonymous with "responsibility." It isn't. Blame include fault.
> Fault for doing something wrong.
Well lessee. From Dictionary.com:
blame
v. tr. blamed, blam·ing, blames.
1.To hold responsible.
2.To find fault with; censure.
3.To place responsibility for (something): blamed the crisis on poor
planning.
n.
1.The state of being responsible for a fault or an error; culpability.
2.Censure; condemnation.
Idioms:
to blame
1.Deserving censure; at fault.
2.Being the cause or source of something: A freak storm was to blame
for the power outage.
> You claim that JohnD's note is an argument of semantics, but I don't think so.
From the above definition, I think it's a toss-up.
-John
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> I think that you and Steve, at the head of the drug part of this thread, were
> distinctly implying that drug use is somehow inherently bad. It isn't.
> SOmetimes people let it get away from them, and they do bad things. But there
> is no fault or blame to assign when someone responsibly uses recreational
> drugs.
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> I feel no guilt for my use of alcohol. None. I don't use any other
> recreational drugs, but not because it's wrong, just because it doesn't appeal
> to me.
>
> Chris
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