Peter McWilliams - Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do (1993)

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The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

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The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

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Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good.

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Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.

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Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should or should not be exposed to?

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I'm tired of people thinking that Libertarians don't have morality — that they don't have values. that's a lot of hogwash. Libertarians are the ONLY politicians with values.

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Gays seem to be at the bottom of the pecking order: no matter how far down the pecking order another group is, its members still feel superior to and have no problem picking on gays.

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The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends.... The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

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As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.

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Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization.

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