Debate: ARE YOU AGAINST SMOKING?
Side: NO

Riddle me this - what liberty am I taking away from you by being naked? Is it your freedom to not see naked people?When I say nudity I don't mean you can go everywhere naked, I'm refering to nude beaches and nudist camps, nothing wrong with those.But here's my problem. Why should the smoker not take a step back? Why do I have to do it? How do you measure what liberties are more important?Than ask them to take a step back, don't tell the police to put them in jail for smoking. Problem solved.I'm not equating them. I just asked why do you think we keep around murder laws when they clearly don't stop people from committing murders.Because it does, doesn't stop all of them, but reduces them. If you kill someone there is a shit ton of evidence left behind most of the time and people tend to notice when people go missing. When someone sells you a gram of whatever in an alley and then you go home and use it, no one notices.If illegalizing doesn't stop X, why keep the laws around? Lets regulate it!- That's basically the cookie cutter argument that supports drugs use.When drugs are illegal and aren't regulated they are still vastly used. A drug dealer doesn't care about your health, doesn't care about your age doesn't care about you at all and there absolutley no consequences if he/she cheats you, sells your something that is cut or sells to a minor. When drugs are regulated, this tends to go away, I mean for fucks sake its easier for someone under 18 to buy weed the beer.No, everyone didn't drink. The problem with prohibition was that the alchohol prices soared and criminal organizations rode those waves. By illegalizing alchohol crime went overdrive. To fight and depower crime gangs, the state legalized alchohol once again.Same thing with other drugs, especially the Mexican cartels, 70% of their income comes from weed, so that would mean 70% less memebers, 70% less guns and 70% less people killed.Again, you are saying that one persons liberty is more important than someone elses. Why can't the musician play somewhere else where he doesn't bother me?Ask him to move or keep it down, most park performers play guitar, rather quite instrument in the park, you can barley even hear them if your a few yards away. Your argument seems to be that you not being able to get rid of things you don't like is an attack on your liberties but telling someone they can't do what they like is not.I think it's ridiculous that I'm expected to buy earplugs just because some bohemian can't find a more remote place to play his guitar.I think it's ridiculous that musicians are expected to leave the park because you can't appreciate music or tolerate the whopping 10 seconds you have to hear them when you run past.I'll give my neighbours some nice sleeping music and if they don't like it, buy earplugs.Thats different, your neighbors have their own property and if your blasting music that loud at 2 am thats disturbing the peace, playing music in the park is not.Well, we rape animals already. Legally by the way.Have you ever heard of forced breeding, artifically masturbating horses to collect their semen for the use of breeding? How about inseminating female horses, cows and other animals and make them produce offspring. That's two crimes in one - raping them and making them give birth.Besides, sex with animals is not necessarily rape. Dogs often mount humans out of their own free will. Animals can also reject sexual advances from humans by moving away. Some humans may also take extra care in not to harm their animal partners. There are many sides here.So again - why is bestiality still illegal? We don't care about their consent and sexually abusing them is legal already.I know all of this, but sex with an animal is rape. And let me clarify something a forced handjob is not rape, its sexual harassment, rape is forced sex. A handjob is not sex.Disagree. You did not give attention to the various demographics I listed - the people who don't want to do illegal things, people who don't want to associate themselves with criminals etc. All of these people are potential users.Everyone is a potential user already, especially minors. You ever go to high school? Schools are flooded with dealers, you can buy weed really cheap and really easy almost anywhere so having it be illegal doesn't make anynone some how immune to it. Anouther thing, when you make a product like drugs illegal criminals will always get involved your basically saying "hey criminals, heres a market you can monopolize"There will be more addicts, make no mistake. And people can go and get treatment already, right now.There won't be more addicts and when someone who knows a drug is illegal and they can be thrown in jail for it the last thing they want is help out of fear of being arrested.Legalize it and they won't have any trouble getting a lifetime supply of cheap drugs.They already don't have a problem, thats why there getting alot of drugs, you think if they couldn't afford them that they would be addicts? If you can't afford drugs you can't use drugs and there sure as hell using them.