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how is pro-weed zealotry stupid? it's essentially saying that people's lives are being ruined, staggering amounts of government money being wasted, and entire c
by zem 13y ago
how is pro-weed zealotry stupid? it's essentially saying that people's lives are being ruined, staggering amounts of government money being wasted, and entire classes of criminal being created by trying to ban something that (a) shouldn't be banned in the first place and (b) cannot be banned effectively anyway.
if the zealots are all on the wrong side, that just shifts the entire centre of gravity of the discussion (see the overton window for more on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window)
- hcarvalhoalves 13y agoThe original comment is deleted by now, but it jumped into arguing whether weed is harmful or not, which is totally orthogonal to what the article discusses, to then conclude that it isn't and because of that it should be legal, without backing any of the arguments and just using HN as a soapbox. This is zealotry.
- zem 13y agookay, fair point. i missed that about the parent.