The marijuana, evolution, gay marriage debate take 2

O.K. we are getting somewhere: Con (in his last round) Did not bring up procreation, the harmful effects of marijuana, and gave me insight into why he does not believe in evolution! That is progress and I can work with it! I was thoroughly entertained by your story about friends living near a pot farm! Unfortunately the issues you have illustrated only shows a few of the many flaws in prohibition. One question you could answer for me: Why isn't alcohol illegal (I'm baiting you to say "because prohibition doesn't work"). Lets make this simple. Marijuana is a plant. An extremely versatile plant. It can grow in many different conditions and can be farmed just like any other plant! The water issue and property line fiasco is a product of improper regulations. If you spend your entire budget trying to battle something instead of regulating it and what do you get.. Pot doesn't go away and the effort and resources are not available to help control the conditions of where and how much you can grow (Just like any other farm). I'm sorry these are reasons to end prohibition not enforce it. If calling me closed minded helps your ego than by all means slander away! The reason marijuana should be legal is not so people can get high, they are going to do that anyways. It is because it is painfully obvious that prohibition doesn't work.. AT ALL.. Not even a little! It was made obvious with alcohol. Unfortunately for all you pot protesters.. until I see alcohol under the same restrictions.. You will forever loses this battle! Yes, food and drinks like fast food and soda are extremely bad for you. They can even kill you (like drowning while swimming) Marijuana can not! Playing football can permanently disable you! Marijuana cannot! You could smoke weed all day every day for 40 years and still take care of yourself. Play one game of football and become paralyzed from the neck down! Should they still play? Yes of course! Even if I'm not as good at answering jeopardy questions should I allow you that authority over me? If the "authority" doesn't pick its battles, we are better without them. BTW every day I'm pushed more towards anarchy as a philosophy! Mostly because I do not trust authority! Personally I would rather the government use the money to help my country (health care and education) instead spending 42 billion annually to be my nanny! http://www.mpp.org... I'm just going to come right out and say it. Gay people adopting children is a GOOD thing! The foster care/orphanage/adoption system is infamous for being broken and or despicable. Its a shame that so many people are protected under law to have as many unwanted and abandoned children as hey want while homosexuals are under scrutiny for trying to help! Think about it. Heterosexuals that had a child and gave it away is PROTECTED! While homosexuals who want to adopt might mess up the child (too late for that)! Homosexuals should be PROTECTED for the same reason we do not dictate who can have children! I would love to go down to my local trailer park and urge the preteen crack head to keep her legs shut but sadly there is not a cosmic force to prevent her from doing so. Since I do not have a solution for that I do have a solution for the poor child who slips by the same legs I urged her to keep closed! That being said.. why not support these children with the benefits of a state recognized marriage! Couldn't hurt right? (please don't use this as a chance to say that it would pave the way for incest and bestiality or that children need one female and one male to love and protect them, because what the child needs is the support of a loving home) "Now we demand to have a national holiday celebrating homosexuals"- as long as the banks stay open so what. Everyone wants a day to celebrate their "importance" Its the wonderful side effect of being insecure. Give them their day, who cares. If you don't like parades.. don't go! "We want our kids learning about homosexuality in school! Change the curriculum and have a required test on it! Have a project based on homosexuality!" So your answer is that you think gays are icky, therefore learning about them is icky? Homosexuality is (whether you like it or not) Biological and in nature! What's wrong with learning about biology? (this will also help with the evolution section). You can pretend its not. But the fact remains.. homosexuality exists in many different species of animals. If you don't want to learn about it just get high before class! jk "You think I"m joking? Just wait five years or more once every state allows homosexuals to "marry". It"ll happen. They already have parades celebrating gays." Really? You think? I truly hope so.. for humanities sake! BUT Believe me when I say.. I will not be attending those parades. Did I mention that flamboyancy annoys the crap out of me? Who you are is wildly less important than how you act. http://www.lifelongadoptions.com... I'm going to firmly stand by this statement: You are a primate and you are NOT educated on this subject! Just like learning about homosexuals.. you decided it was not worth your time. Your convinced and do not care about silly things like evidence and proof! That is why this subject is here! "I am not an ape".. are you sure about that? The evidence says otherwise. I think what you meant to say is "I don't want to be an ape"! Identity crisis much? lolo If you were educated you would explain how Phylogenetics/Cladistics/Linean Taxonomy/Fossils records and geography/archeology/biology all cross confirm each other and paint a pretty elegant and predictive picture! The evidence is there. If you don't want to educate yourself fine. Just stay out of this battle. You are creating controversy where there is none! You don't want to believe it great. Just don't stifle its progress and live in your own world where Jesus will save you from all the doubt and confusion! Sorry had to be a jerk to prove a point! This topic is the epitome of "pick your battles". If you are familiar with Ray Comfort vs Richard Dawkins. Ray comfort (aka the banana man) has called out Mr. Dawkins on several occasions to debate this subject! Dawkin's explained that if he were to debate Ray it would be like a debate between a reproductive biologist and a proponent of the stork theory on the subject of where babies come from! "Apparently you"re blind. I am not an ape, but maybe you are? You sure you"re human, I"m not debating an animal am I? " Now your just monkeying around lol "Never heard of man actually being apes, where did that idea come from?" Which gives me the right to assume you have not learned about it.. thus are uneducated! (I don't mean in general, just on this topic) "If we"re apes then what are those animals in the zoo? Are they man?" *palm to forehead* Please do your research. http://humanorigins.si.edu... http://humanorigins.si.edu... http://evolution.berkeley.edu... "You"re not on drugs yourself, are you?" Nope.. I read a book! "So, because I don"t believe we"re apes, I"m the uneducated one?" Whammy! You got it! "More like you are. The more you say, the more uneducated you sound." Did you just "I'm rubber your glue" me? " Please do me a huge favor and actually give reasons and facts to support your argument. It would mean sooooo much to me. :)" I wanted to but you fell in 3 separate pitfalls in your first round! I will call it a practice round. You were just sticking your tow in to fell the water! Now you need to jump in!