States' Rights

Quote: rxwine

So again, reasonable choices. Localized bans do not concern me.

The thin edge of the wedge.

Quote: Nareed

The thin edge of the wedge.

If you want things just so, somebody else always has a different version of "just so."

You can always write a story about the way things should be.

: )

In Alaska and I know some place here in the states, there are "dry" villages.

History tells of entire villages that starved to death because of Vitus Bering or Captain Cook trading barrels of rum for seal hides. The men got drunk and would not hunt, and entire villages were wiped out forever.

In the villages outside Anchorage or Fairbanks the town elders have put in either "dry" or damp policy's and except for the young, it has worked pretty well. When they choose they can hop a flight into town and stay drunk until they freeze to death sleeping in a snow bank and the snow thrower grinds them up and spits them out.

It is so sad, the kids will "huff" anything that washes up on the beach with or without a label.

I had a friend who wanted to smuggle whiskey into the villages as pints would go for big money. I said for Christ's sake man, just sell cocaine in Anchorage, you will do less harm. I didn't support him at all, I hope he didn't do it?

I support local rule, you want something different go do it, but the local elders decided that locally, alcohol kills, and it is difficult to stop once it gets started.

My .02.

Quote: petroglyph

I support local rule, you want something different go do it, but the local elders decided that locally, alcohol kills, and it is difficult to stop once it gets started.

Imagine about 15% of a town's inhabitants are allergic to peanuts.

Ok? Peanut allergies are very serious. They vary, but not very much. People can get very ill, even die, from peanut dust and shells.

In such a case I wouldn't oppose a ban on peanuts.

Quote: rxwine

You can always write a story about the way things should be.

What other kind of story would I write??

Quote: Nareed

Imagine about 15% of a town's inhabitants are allergic to peanuts.

Ok? Peanut allergies are very serious. They vary, but not very much. People can get very ill, even die, from peanut dust and shells.

In such a case I wouldn't oppose a ban on peanuts.

Yeah but, peanuts aren't nuts.

Quote: rxwine

I will agree with Face (I think) it is a PITA to feel trapped in an area that shares too few of your values of freedom.

But I'm not sure if that is really the same definition of lack of freedoms shared in areas where you may be arrested or killed trying to go to places of more freedom in the world.

It's easy to sort of justify things by comparing to the rest of the world. Gays can complain about cakes, but at least they're not in Saudi Arabia. Simply being denied a cake is better than being stoned to death in the town square.

But we're USA#1, right? What part of our birth and history was made with the mindset "That's good enough"? We're [supposed to be a shining beacon, not a pile of grey compromise.

Quote: Face

It's easy to sort of justify things by comparing to the rest of the world. Gays can complain about cakes, but at least they're not in Saudi Arabia. Simply being denied a cake is better than being stoned to death in the town square.

But we're USA#1, right? What part of our birth and history was made with the mindset "That's good enough"? We're [supposed to be a shining beacon, not a pile of grey compromise.

Okay, okay, you win a flag pole and a American beer!

man, you just need to move to Montana, Wyoming (or something) and stop harshing down on my grey compromise!