Pawns4Mons

I know what you mean.. I'm trying to find a good medium here, I apologize, it's hard to put this in to a good context.

Community Service could easily be described as each individual tending to their own; Say there is a fire and it destroys a large number of businesses. The owners of said business should be responsible for the cleanup. Im sure after 9/11 they could have done it themsleves without having resort to people "Pitching In" or even compensated them aka hiring a cleanup crew

I saw him on the Colbert Report last night. It rolled a clip from his movie and all I have to say is.. "Wow". I can sum up the whole movie: Panning Shots of a Big City (perhaps New York) Interviews with anti-capitalists and poor people Rich businessmen refusing to sit down and talk (who would want to talk with him?) Filler and a closing speech. Honestly he couldnt even make a good attempt to bash capitalism.. "The rich leach of the poor" Wow I havn't heard that a Million times from EVERYBODY who disagrees with Capitalism, it's their favorite 6 words. Good Try Michael Moore, the market is too strong. Maybe Include a copy of "The Communist Mannifesto" with the DVD.

Well what about selling heroin to an upstanding businessman?.

I apologize if I strayed from Objectivist Ethics. Im only on my 4th day as an Objectivist So would weed be a frowned upon thing or is it accepted?

I'm reffering to whether or not the LEGALITY should be based on MORALITY or not when in relation to the market EDIT: Okay perhaps my high ambitions of a truly free market are clouding my judgment.... The law is basicly a code of Morals, (it's immoral to do X so don't do X). Illegal Drugs are a clear violation of Objectivist Ethics with only one exception: Weed.

I have heard so many news reports. "Video Games make people violent", "Guns made the Columbine incident possible", "Smoking Kills people". Why is all the blame being directed to the people who sell Video games, Guns and Ciggaretes?. PEOPLE kill PEOPLE. Instead of banning every product that can cause harm and force the market into somthing that isn't a free market We should be focusing on why these incidents happen. Overprotective parents who dont let their children flourish and instead hide them from their true potential causes "Video Games to make people violent" Flawed School systems and and even more flawed moral social structure cause "Guns being the cause of Columbine" and... well smoking just kills you no two ways about that The reason most of these "Bad" products are labeled "Bad" is because of how the people use them. A Perfect Textbook Objectivist Society would not be 100% rid of these problems but they would not be in such alarming numbers. Guns could be sold for other means than killing me and drugs could be sold for recreational use. EDIT: Yes i know Drugs wont create happiness even if thats whats in your head as a belief but I still think they should be legal. Alot of things can make people unhappy but if they are a product that has value i.e (the ability to be traded, Bought and Sold or Consumed) then they should be given a fair chance in the market

Well they must have some value, the illegal drug market is worth Billions of Dollars and has plenty of demand. Sorry for the double post

But the buyer Chooses to buy the drugs. Why should the trader stop him?. It's in the buyers individual happiness to purchase his drugs. The previous example of one person wanting to buy a $100,000 lunchbox. He should be allowed to buy it if the seller is willing to sell. In the most simple form; making the selling of drugs illegal is forcing the market to not sell a product with demand, and that has worse results than any drug could do.

The buyer has the right to refuse sale. If he knows someone is going to buy a gun to kill me he could refuse selling it to him. Drugs are in the same category as Tobacco and Alcohol they destroy Your body and nobody else's. I'm sure people who sell ciggaretes know that they are bringing a death upon the buyer but it is just a product that he is selling

Illegal Drugs are a Product and they have a Market. It dosn't matter if the person using them are John Crackaddict or a High Cost Surgeon looking for a way to steady his hands. They are a product, how could it be immoral to sell somthing that has legitimate value?. The buyer offers a Product and people either buy it or they don't, why should the trader be blamed for anything when he is just doing business. The People who buy his drugs have a choice. Anything they do should be Their Problem.