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• Monday, May 12, 2008 03:46 AM

  JNagarya, Mona

  You may be getting older, but I think it's safe to say I'm your senior.

  I rather doubt that. And if so, only by a couple of years. Let's just say I reject your GAIA theories of policing a free society and criminal justice. Having a mechanism for the arrest, prosecution and imprisonment of large segments of the population for ingesting substances is greater societal harm than the occasional mugging which will occur for prized Air Jordans of money to buy comic books, CD, or video games. Some of the answers to the questions you pose in counter argument are so obvious as to make me wonder why you posed them at all. If you have had legal training, it is clear you specialized in obfuscation and burying the opposition in discovery and documentation, most of it irrelevant. You also refuse to address the salient points of your opponent's arguments. You do this often.

  Mona,

  I'm not sure Glenn was talking so much about that as the other thing Arne and I were discussing, but don't want to discuss openly. Even I, a fellow "liberal" have suggested some of J's ideas tend to the absurd. The truth is serious flaws in any ideology taken to ridiculous extremes become readily apparent. The minute ideology trumps practicality the object of harm reduction gets thrown out the window. Any ideology carried to extremes could be as scary as Manson. I don't think poor libertarians deserve all the heat. There is enough to go around. Live and let live is a liberal/libertarian principle but carried to some ridiculous extremes we get the aberrations we are all familiar with.

  —L.W.M. Read L.W.M.'s other letters
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