We Should Just Make Up Our Own Laws

[EricF]

Make Prostitution Legal.  Regulate and Tax them.  Put them under the Department of Health or the National Park service.  Instead of costing money to prosecute and imprison the states will make Millions.  Reduce STD's like AIDS because all Brothels would require regular testing and protection.

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Luck running that bad with the ladies right now?

Though I'm not one to talk.

I'm just kidding, I agree though it would make sense, health-wise and economically.

[wattsat]

I have no need for Prostitutes or Drugs.

I do believe that niether myself or anyone else has the right to regulate morality and that is exactly what is keeping prostitution and drug use illegal. Goverment laws regulating Morality.

[starfish]

There is no safety, no liberty, no freedom, in a country that is not governed by morality.

[wattsat]

There is no safety, no liberty, no freedom, in a country that is not governed by morality.

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I think you have morality and criminal mixed up.

mo·ral·i·ty ( P ) Pronunciation Key (m-rl-t, mô-)

n. pl. mo·ral·i·ties

The quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct.

A system of ideas of right and wrong conduct: religious morality; Christian morality.

Virtuous conduct.

A rule or lesson in moral conduct.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=morality

crim·i·nal ( P ) Pronunciation Key (krm-nl)

adj.

Of, involving, or having the nature of crime: criminal abuse.

Relating to the administration of penal law.

Guilty of crime.

Characteristic of a criminal.

Shameful; disgraceful: a criminal waste of talent.

n.

One that has committed or been legally convicted of a crime.

I would also define criminal is performing an act that either directly or indirectly affects another person.

According to our laws you can commit a crime against yourself. Example: it is illegal to smoke Marajuana. If you are alone in your house when you are smoking are you causing a problem to anyone else? I think not. I am sure you will bring up all of the problems that smoking Pot can cause to your friends relatives etc. The same can be said of alchohol and that is legal.

Killing or robbing somebody has nothing to do with morality because morality is very subjective. I don't know anybody that thinks that killing another person for no reason is ok.

I do know plenty of people that think smoking pot or prostetution is ok. I am not saying they do them but they see no problem with others doing if they so feel.

A government regulated by morality is a government that is run by religion. That is a very bad thing.

[starfish]

No mix ups on my end, perhaps you've been toking on that pole?

Founding Educator and founder of Websters Dictionary, Noah Webster: The most perfect maxims and examples for regulating your social conduct and domestic economy, as well as the best rules of morality and religion, are to be found in the Bible. . . . The moral principles and precepts found in the scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. These principles and precepts have truth, immutable truth, for their foundation. . . . All the evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. . . . For instruction then in social, religious and civil duties resort to the scriptures for the best precepts.

Source: Noah Webster, History of the United States, "Advice to the Young" (New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1832), pp. 338-340, par. 51, 53, 56.)

"Without religion, morality falters. When morality falters the Pandora's box of corruption, crime and decay set in to be followed by the demise of the nation." - Alexander Hamilton

"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again." --Ronald Reagan

I'll do my best Mr. President!

[wattsat]

For one, I have never smoked marajuana.

Two great examples of countries governed by religion are:

Iran and the Taliban ruled Afghanistan.

I believe that religion has its place. Religious organizations do alot of good in this country. They also do alot of bad as well under the guise of religion. I think that regligion belongs in our schools. All religion. If Religious studies were allowed in shcools I think there would be alot fewer problems in the world.

Starfish, are you able to formulate your own opinions or do you always rely upon quotes from others.

[djscoggins]

is that you GOD? its me margret. i hope any jurors/judges you come across arent as ignorant as yourself. for your own sake.

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So did u answer my ? O and my bad for bein Ignorant... I'll get right on that...and as far as running across judges/jurors part.... If im in a court room for some sort of homocide charge....then theres an exellent chance that somewhere down the line i made a Conscious decision to murder and its very unlikely that ive been framed... So since i made that decision then i am responsible for my actions.

[Deltablade]

I think you have morality and criminal mixed up.

mo·ral·i·ty ( P ) Pronunciation Key (m-rl-t, mô-)

n. pl. mo·ral·i·ties

The quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct.

A system of ideas of right and wrong conduct: religious morality; Christian morality.

Virtuous conduct.

A rule or lesson in moral conduct.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=morality

crim·i·nal ( P ) Pronunciation Key (krm-nl)

adj.

Of, involving, or having the nature of crime: criminal abuse.

Relating to the administration of penal law.

Guilty of crime.

Characteristic of a criminal.

Shameful; disgraceful: a criminal waste of talent.

n.

One that has committed or been legally convicted of a crime.

I would also define criminal is performing an act that either directly or indirectly affects another person.

According to our laws you can commit a crime against yourself. Example: it is illegal to smoke Marajuana. If you are alone in your house when you are smoking are you causing a problem to anyone else? I think not. I am sure you will bring up all of the problems that smoking Pot can cause to your friends relatives etc. The same can be said of alchohol and that is legal.

Killing or robbing somebody has nothing to do with morality because morality is very subjective. I don't know anybody that thinks that killing another person for no reason is ok.

I do know plenty of people that think smoking pot or prostetution is ok. I am not saying they do them but they see no problem with others doing if they so feel.

A government regulated by morality is a government that is run by religion. That is a very bad thing.

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Alright dude, marihuana laws aren't an issue of morality at all. The reason pot is illegal and alcohol is a controlled substance is that it is imposible to use pot responsibly. I can take a shot and be perfectly coherent/rational but take one draw on a joint and be completely out of my mind. (On a side note: I haven't smoked pole.)

And believe it or not, this country was based on Christian ideals, which you can't really say are bad ones. Some people take them too far in my opinion and thats the way you feel the way you do.

[Plan_B]

Alright dude, marihuana laws aren't an issue of morality at all. The reason pot is illegal and alcohol is a controlled substance is that it is imposible to use pot responsibly. I can take a shot and be perfectly coherent/rational but take one draw on a joint and be completely out of my mind. (On a side note: I haven't smoked weed.)

And believe it or not, this country was based on Christian ideals, which you can't really say are bad ones. Some people take them too far in my opinion and thats the way you feel the way you do.

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Weed is so overratted, you ain't missing anything Tom. ;)

[wattsat]

I can take a shot and be perfectly coherent/rational but take one draw on a joint and be completely out of my mind

I used to have a tolerance for alchohol. Now one or two shots or beers and I will feel the effect.

Secondly, have you ever smoked a cigarette? I have smoked in my life one entire cigarette with no other external factors. When I stood up I could barely walk. I could not imagine how in the world people functioned after smoking. I certainly would not want to drive after that cigarette.

My point is that any substance can create an unctrollable effect on a person. According to your logic we should ban any substance that makes you go loony.

As far as this country being founded on Christian ideals??? I guess that is why Slavery was supported for over 200 years in North America. I guess Christian ideals is why Native Americans were killed without cause and had their lands taken. I guess Christian values is why hundres of people were killed in witch trials.

I hear alot of people talking about christian values but yet I see very few of them actually following them.

[Hathoway]

I used to have a tolerance for alchohol.  Now one or two shots or beers and I will feel the effect.

Secondly, have you ever smoked a cigarette?  I have smoked in my life one entire cigarette with no other external factors.  When I stood up I could barely walk.  I could not imagine how in the world people functioned after smoking.  I certainly would not want to drive after that cigarette.

My point is that any substance can create an unctrollable effect on a person.  According to your logic we should ban any substance that makes you go loony.

As far as this country being founded on Christian ideals???  I guess that is why Slavery was supported for over 200 years in North America.  I guess Christian ideals is why Native Americans were killed without cause and had their lands taken.  I guess Christian values is why hundres of people were killed in witch trials.

I hear alot of people talking about christian values but yet I see very few of them actually following them.

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You make it sound like the ideals are false. Christians are people too and make mistakes like anyone else, if not more. A person who is a chrsitian isn't mysteriously perfected into a person who is infallible or can never do wrong or make mistakes, bad decisions. You can't blame Christian ideals/Christianity for the selfish deeds of people, if they're contradictory then somebody is a hypocrite/selfish in their ways and has perverted the truth, twisted it to fulfill their desire(s). I don't recall reading about any of Christ's followers killing/murdering astrologers or any of the like (somewhat similiar, dealing with the supernatural or extraterrestrial, witches). I do recall the Apostle Paul though showing an astrologer the Way and the man changed and adopted Paul's way of thinking, basically becoming a Christian. Christians are striving for perfection yet are still in the world and are still tempted by the old way they used to be when they should be something different. Being a Christian is a very hard thing to do, talking like a Christian not very hard...

[S40Monster]

I'm all about the 22 cent solution here. 1 well-placed round would suffice. Who says execution has to be expensive?

There is an easy way to make death-row/executions effective as deterrents and money-makers for the state... Pay-Per-View.

Some may argue that Public Execution violates the perp's rights... What rights? You have been found guilty by a jury of your peers and your one remaining right is the right to die! You are lucky that you weren't standing on a plastic tarp when they jury came back with the verdict.

"We the jury, find the defendant..." <insert pistol-cocking noise> "Guilty" <BANG!>

Start doling out (and televising) some of these sentences and I have a funny feeling violent crimes will take a downward spiral.

It seems that, in America today, a Death sentence is deemed nothing more than a move to a different cell block.

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Chris for president.