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Published Letters: 446 Editor's Choice: 7
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@Reece0
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, the constitution doesn't outlaw prostitution bans.
Does the constitution also not outlaw bans on sex toys? Or not outlaw bans on sodomy (which can go on in straight and gay sex)?
If you want to get all loosey-goosey like that, there are a LOT of things I am certain you don't want to have banned that can be slipped into the barn door you seek to open. Like contraception, for instance. Where in the Constitution does it ban states from banning contraception?
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I can assure one and all
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]* If I could get $1,000/hr. for sex I would almost certainly be RICH. and famous. *In my view, the most harmful aspects of prostitution is when it is employed/bartered in sustaining a drug/alc. addiction. Just my opinion.
That Spitzer's partner in this case is 1)NOT coerced, 2)does NOT need to tolerate abuse and is free to choose whether or not to go with somone, 3)may or may not have a drug habit but if she does, it is obviously not physically doing her much harm (she has any hypothetical drug habit firmly under control), and 4) can likely quit any time she likes but chooses not to because the money is easy and she is getting a LOT of it hand over fist.
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@tina...
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joshua is telling me my place
My place? It's not my place?
Really, Josh, really?
Not my place? I am not an allowed an opinion by the almighty Josh? He of many other blatantly sexist posts?
There is a difference between telling someone a fact (It is not your place to determine for others how to live their life) and telling someone they have no right to an opinion (It is entirely within your rights to voice an opinion that you think it IS your place to tell someone else how to live their life). I believe Josh was expounding on the former - that just as it is not your place to compel anyone else, be they woman or man, to not take part of certain forms of adult consensual sex, it is not MY place to compel all religious morons NOT to take part in their ridiculous, primitive, totally baseless and irrational religious activities. I can express my opinion quite freely about the idiocy of religion and what it makes people do but I cannot compel them to my correct way of thinking (about REALITY).
You are absolutely free to your opinion. The problem comes when you try to see your opinions enacted into binding laws on everyone around you.
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@talesofunrest...
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some ‘clever’ unbelievers
Your amusing "paragraph" would have been more effective it it had lacked all punctuation (just a suggestion for the future).
Carry on.
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@tomemos
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry, I may have given the impression that I'm against gun control. Probably this happened when I said that, if someone is against an assault weapons ban, then I disagree with them. My bad.
I'm a liberal/progressive. I have an "assault weapon". I wont give it up.
And I don't have any itch to run about college campuses or shopping malls and shoot me us some randoms before blowing my own head off. Ain't gonna happen.
And what else ain't gonna happen: me giving up this weapon. I'm one of those people that gets more stubborn and more defiant the more someone tries to force shit I don't agree with down my throat.
In any case, as I learned when I picked up my current weapon - the assualt weapon ban was a JOKE. During the entire "ban" I could STILL have acquired the weapon I have in a slightly less utilitarian form: flash hider welded on rather than screwed on. 10-round magazine rather than 20-round. And...that was about it. Oh yeah, no bayonet lug. Who the F*CK wants a bayonet?! Except for a collector of authentic military TYPE weapons, a bayonet is a friggin' joke.
In any case, my current weapon is a pre-ban weapon I bought from a cop. Nice rifle. Fun to shoot and not all that common.
You're not gonna take it from me (Oh, and I'm NOT a member or supporter of the NRA).
Signed, one happy liberal/progressive "assault-style" weapon owner.
The end.