Debate: ARE YOU AGAINST SMOKING?
Side: YES

I'm not not okay with nudism, I think you always need to have your genetallia covered.Riddle me this - what liberty am I taking away from you by being naked? Is it your freedom to not see naked people?Heres the thing, if smoking is legal and you don't like it, take a few steps back, thats what you have to do. If smoking is illegal all smokers have to give up smoking, all tobacco business would have to close and everyone they employ would lose their job. Tell me, who is giving up more?Toxic? They aren't dumping mercury in the water their smoking, the smoke can only be inhaled if your really close to them and the wind is blowing in your direction. You have the liberty to take a few steps back, its not that hard and its what I do when people smoke, I step back I don't grab their cig and stomp it out.You don't have to leave, you can just take 2 or 3 steps back, they would have to give up smoking or buy them illegally. Your doing more against them.Have you ever heard of a non-smoking zone? Theres a lot of them.Their "toxic" enviornment is within a few feet of them in whatever direction the wind is blowing, take 2 steps back and your fine, its what I do and it works just fine.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?Why do you think that the smoker's right to liberty is so important that I have to get out of his way and not the other way around?Don't try and compare murder to smoking they are to entirely different things.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. 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.Really now? Then tell me why during the prohibition almost everyone drank and there were more speak easys in most cities than there are bars today? It doesn't decrease anything, just makes it unregulated and distracts police from actual issues... like murder.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.I just think it's not a solution we should strive for. Ever hear of ear plugs? As a musician I use them for performances, but you should buy a pair if you really don't like music. Ever hear of a music player? Listen to your own music. Ever hear of appreciating music and not finding someone who is just strumming a few chords (that you can barley hear anyway) as you pass him to be a nuisnace?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?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. What if I want to play my drums in the middle of the night? I'll give my neighbours some nice sleeping music and if they don't like it, buy earplugs.This is true, there is nothing against killing animals and suing them as resources, theres no problem with them being used like that, but having sex with them is not making use of an animal its just rape and animal cruelty, not to say killing them isn't but they are being used as food and other resources.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.Not it won't, all it does is control it, regulate and keep it out of the hands of kids. There are only two effective ways of dealing with drugs, Milton Friedman's way and Mao Zedong's way.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.It controls the substance and regulates it, there might be slightly more addicts but there would also be less because they could go to treatment instead of being cuffed by the police and thrown in prison.And I guess I'm sorry for the long post as well.There will be more addicts, make no mistake. And people can go and get treatment already, right now. The clinics are actually obligated to be discrete with the identity of their patients. Some clinics actually give out clean syringes to addicts to prevent the spreading of diseases etc. but so far, very few people actually want quit. Legalize it and they won't have any trouble getting a lifetime supply of cheap drugs.