The idea that licentiousness among consenting adults (legalized drugs, prostitution, gambling, etc.) can co-exist with limited government (confined strictly to preventing anyone from infringing upon the life, liberty, and property rights of anyone else) under a constitutional republic in an environment free from interference by over-zealous right-wing Bible-thumpers, tax-and-spend liberals, or other external agents of oppression. <\/p>\n
The main problem with this delusional notion of co-existence is that it runs afoul of an annoying immutable natural law - roughly translated as \"nature abhors a vacuum\" - that's understood and exploited by every drug pusher, credit card issuer, Las Vegas casino, and Madison Avenue marketer and even the bailout-happy U.S. Federal Reserve and which was summed up by Edmund Burke: <\/p>\n
\"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as they are disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves. <\/p>\n
\"Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. <\/p>\n
\"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.\" <\/p>\n
-or as John Adams said: <\/p>\n
(The U.S.) constitution was made for a moral and religious people; it is wholly inadequate for any other. <\/p>\n
\"We favor the repeal of all laws creating 'crimes' without victims, such as the use of drugs for medicinal or recreational purposes.\" <\/p>\n
\"The only legitimate use of force is in defense of individual rights life, liberty, and justly acquired property against aggression\" <\/p>\n
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Continue reading here: The idea that licentiousness among consenting adults (legalized drugs, prostitution, gambling, etc.) can co-exist with limited government (confined strictly to preventing anyone from infringing upon the life, liberty, and property rights of anyone else) under a constitutional republic in an environment free from interference by over-zealous right-wing Bible-thumpers, tax-and-spend liberals, or other external agents of oppression. The main problem with this delusional notion of co-existence is that it runs afoul of an annoying immutable natural law - roughly translated as \"nature abhors a vacuum\" - that's understood and exploited by every drug pusher, credit card issuer, Las Vegas casino, and Madison Avenue marketer and even the bailout-happy U.S. Federal Reserve and which was summed up by Edmund Burke: \"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as they are disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves. Continue reading
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