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brain says...

I've been saying that for a while. It seems like a simple solution. I really want to figure out why I've NEVER heard this debated in any debate ever.

In reality, the christians still won't be satisfied. But they won't be able to use their line about how they want to protect the definition of marriage. They won't have anything else to say other than "we hate gay people and don't want them to have equal rights".

In reply to this comment by xxovercastxx:
I've been saying the same thing lately. Let "marriage" be something that happens in a church and let the government only recognize civil unions.

The arguments of traditional definition disappear. "God" is out of the equation. The laws surrounding marriage/union are greatly simplified and the blame for all the bigotry and backwardness is put squarely where it should be... back on the religious fundamentalists.

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brain says...

The arguments in the video actually do make sense when you keep in mind what you're talking about. Of course the same arguments don't make any sense for theft. There is an obvious reason for this: The logic of morals. Pretty much all morals come from the golden rule.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"

Theft causes harm to the person being stolen from. People don't want to be stolen from. Therefore, people shouldn't steal from other people.

Marijuana obviously doesn't affect other people at all. Marijuana is not in the same category as theft. Marijuana is in the same category as cigarettes, alcohol and other drugs such as LSD and ecstasy. Keep it in the same category and the arguments make sense.

Do you think the taxation of cigarettes has failed? Cigarettes are extremely dangerous compared to marijuana. Lung cancer kills 1.3 million people world wide every year. Do you think we should make it illegal?

Also, keep in mind, it's big business either way you look at it. Either the government makes money, or organized crime makes money. Every single gang in the world stays in business by selling illegal substances. Also, Mexico is currently calling in their army to deal with the problem of drug cartels between the Mexico-US border.

Perhaps a lifetime of anti-drug propaganda has made it difficult for you to tell the difference between drugs and something that is actually morally wrong. It's OK.

P.S. I don't smoke weed. I actually hate it.

In reply to this comment by Sniper007:
Why not start taxing theft? I mean, I don't like theft, I think it should be regulated. Right now, theft isn't regulated! Theft has been illegal for 4,000 years, it's clearly not working. People still steal every day. Its time for a new approach. I think we should legalize it, and tax it. It's a HUGE business!

I'm not saying that marijuana use is the same as theft, but some of the arguments presented in this video make no sense at all.

Heck, I happen to know its actually legal and lawful to grow marijuana on your own land, notwithstanding what the "US GOVERNMENT" says. They are just a foreign owned, private corporation. The problem is that no one has the balls and the brains to study fundamental law in relation to who THEY are, and who the "GOVERNMENT" is; and the apply that law in their lives.

jonny (Member Profile)

brain says...

I finally uploaded an avatar to my profile. I uploaded a picture of a crocoduck, like the one here:
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/9030/crocaduck1ce.jpg

And to my surprise, my avatar was not the crocoduck that I uploaded, but was a picture of a brain! A picture of a brain that I had never seen before!

So, on a hunch, I went to brain.videosift.com, and I saw a picture of my crocoduck on brain.videosift.com!!! WHOOPS! Somehow the two pictures are getting crossed and backwards.

The URL's are very similar:
My avatar URL: http://static1.videosift.com/avatars/b/brain.jpg?1227638582
brian.videosift.com picture: http://static1.videosift.com/avatars/b/brain.jpg

So I saved the picture of the brain I saw, and uploaded that as my avatar. So now we're both set to pictures of brains. I think the brain is pretty damn cool. I'm fine with keeping that as my avatar forever. I don't even care if it changes to different pictures of brains if the channel gets updated. So this isn't even technically a problem.

I just wanted to let you know since you're the channel owner. Maybe you can report it to whoever cares.

BTW, hopefully the picture I re-uploaded is the same size and quality as the original. It appears to be as far as I can tell.

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