(December 1, 2013 at 12:56 pm)Godlesspanther Wrote:(November 30, 2013 at 4:56 pm)Drich Wrote: It depends on the goals of soceity. As we are finding out in my thread on morality, right and wrong are trivial ideals. A soceity who bans pot looks to try and keep its citizens with sharp and acute minds. (Look at America's Industrial Age when the substance was first bann, look at China now) verses a soceity who wishes to subdue the masses usually as away to implement massive change. Pot makes people passive, and easier to control. Look how drugs are not only allowed but forced onto the people in warlord controlled parts of Africa. Not to say we are going to be like Somalia, but at the same time where would the US be if the founding Father's were baked out of their minds 80% of the waking life?
That said if the people want slaves, let them have slaves. On the same hand if they want pot them them smoke pot. Who cares what you do or how you justify it. In the end know there is a standard in which we can not escape judgement. So no matter what you deny or justify it is to God we must given an account.
You haven't really said anything here. My question was not about the pros and cons of marijuana nor anything about slavery. It is about a moral hierarchy -- which is a better society? Contemporary Washington and Colorado in which marijuana is legal, or pre-civil rights Alabama and Mississippi?
Morality and right and wrong are not trivial matters. Only those who have been brainwashed into an authoritarian cult think that.
I can't help but suspect that your reluctance to actually answer the question implies that you would rather reinstate racial segregation than progressive morality and human rights.
The Bible is absolutely worthless a a moral guideline. The Bible is and always has been simultaneously for, against, and neutral on every political issue.
The cult that you belong to is obviously a strict authoritarian and dogmatic one. Such a construct is incompatible with a society based on morality.
I said it does not matter which one was better. There is no 'better.' There is only what the goverment is trying to accomplish with the people it controls. Pot is a tool a goverment uses when it is trying to take away the rights of people, and social oppression is the result of making a potion of the population docile enough to walk in, and take away their rights.
Who cares about guns when we have pot? Who cares about China taking our gold reserves for paying for our obama care when we have Pot? Who cares about freedom of religion when we have pot?
You are looking at a before and after, but are to mushed mind to see it for what it really is. but that's ok keep sparking up everyday, I'm sure you can live under some social program, if you are willing to give up your rights, but seriously who cares you've got pot.
