"Steve" wrote:
(snip) If you ever got a blow job in some of
the places where it's illegal you're a criminal
and possibly a felon. Even though your crime
had no victims you could be doing long, hard
time in prison. (snip)


Oh, come on, Steve. Can you name a single person in this country doing
"hard time in prison" solely due to an blow job? If not, lets stick to
reality.


(snip) Do you see the line that reads "arrests
ruin lives and are a disappointment to families"?
Wasn't that similarity the entire point of the
exchange? That an arrest causes harm to the
person arrested and his family, regardless of
the crime the arrest is for?

Except for asking if we thought robbery should
be legalized because the arrest has a negative
impact on the robber. (snip)


Perhaps you need to be reminded of the actual exchange at this point. You
claimed drug arrests are "ruining a lot of people and their families." I
responded by pointing out that "arresting a bank robber ruins his life and
is a disappointment to his family, but would you truly argue for
legalization of bank robbery on those grounds?" There was no comparison
there between drug use and bank robbery, and no comment about the
"similarity of the punishment for two crimes." Instead, the only thing
mentioned was the similarity of both arrests ruining lives and disappointing
families. If you still cannot understand that, further explination is
useless.

Stewart