08-27-2004, 10:21 PM
As for the Drugs discussion, you may know that some softdrugs (marihuana) are legalised here too. Through government control of the substances at a decent price and tracking and trying to help all users, instead of outright forbidding it and opening an avenue for crime, the drug problem has become a lot more controllable. You can't eliminate it. It's impossible.
And then there's always cigarettes. No one can doubt that it is a drug, but I don't hear voices to treat it as, for instance, marihuana is treated, now do I?
Also, I agree with Duckila on the statement that some nations try to live by the bible too much. Let's not forget that the bible is a book written thousands of years ago over 300 years AFTER the events took place and no reliable sources available at that time besides mouth to mouth stories to rely it on (which could get exaggerated then as much as now with each and every telling). I am not going to start a discussion on that, but my point is that the bible was probably written by standards of that time. Had Jesus said that the earth was a globe instead of flat one would not find it back in the bible, for instance.
And then there's always cigarettes. No one can doubt that it is a drug, but I don't hear voices to treat it as, for instance, marihuana is treated, now do I?
Also, I agree with Duckila on the statement that some nations try to live by the bible too much. Let's not forget that the bible is a book written thousands of years ago over 300 years AFTER the events took place and no reliable sources available at that time besides mouth to mouth stories to rely it on (which could get exaggerated then as much as now with each and every telling). I am not going to start a discussion on that, but my point is that the bible was probably written by standards of that time. Had Jesus said that the earth was a globe instead of flat one would not find it back in the bible, for instance.
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