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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Legalizing drugs
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Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 04:19:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  2 04:19:58 1987
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rhonda@chinet.UUCP (Rhonda Scribner) wrote:
> Since taking drugs puts your brain in a state where the ability of that
> brain to make decisions is drastically impaired, obviously even you agree
> that driving (and probably other things) should be off limits.

Since sitting in front of a terminal posting to alt.drugs puts your brain
in a state where the ability of that brain to make decisions is drastically
impaired, obviously even you agree that posting (and probably other things)
should be off limits.

>                                                                 But what
> you keep ignoring is that the same things that cause you to lose the mental
> acuity necessary to drive a car safely also cause you to lose the mental
> acuity necessary to decide whether or not you can or should drive a car!
> "I'm fine, no problem!"  How many people have you heard saying this at
> a party?

But what you keep ignoring is that the same things that cause you to lose
the mental acuity necessary to post safely also cause you to lose the
mental acuity necessary to decide whether or not you can or should post!
"My email bounced, no problem, I'll just post".  How many people have you
seen saying this on the net?

> >...but why do you persist on equating "use of drugs" with "driving while
> >impaired"?
> 
> Because the use of drugs leads to a state of judgmental deterioration that
> can lead not only to making dangerous decisions when doing something like
> driving, it can also lead to dangerous decisions like "I'm straight enough
> to drive" or "Those neighbors of mine are really commies or nazis" or
> who knows what.
> 								--Rhonda

Because the use of netnews leads to a state of judgmental deterioration that
can lead not only to making dangerous decisions when doing something like
posting, it can also lead to dangerous decisions like "I'm calm enough
run rn" or "Those druggie neighbors of mine should all be locked up" or
who knows what.							--John--

[Posted while in a severely deteriorated state totally unrelated to the use
of drugs, or netnews.  Lack of sleep is what's doing me in, let's have
zones where you are allowed to stay up all night and zones where you have
to go to bed at 8PM.]

[Actually I, in my judgement-impaired state, think that the best idea
would be to have zones where it is totally safe.  Where you can go and
nobody can hurt you and nothing can touch you.  Let all those crazies
run around and despoil the earth and take drugs and shoot each other
and detonate nuclear explosives and they will have no effect on you and
your friends in the safe zone.

Around here they call such zones "graveyards".  I'm not suggesting that
Rhonda take up residence there, but it sounds like that's the level of
safety and freedom from risk that she's looking for.]
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