[MD] A Place for the Principled Person

[Case]

[Case]
> Help me out here Ham, are you saying that because the no new taxes,
> intelligent design, home schooling, voucher crowd has eroded the
> quality of our schools, job are being outsourced so we need to
> continue a policy of prohibition that supports drug dealers in the
> style to which they have become accustomed?

[Ham]
I give you a timely example of an unprincipled person, and you want to turn
it into a political debate.  This is why I generally defer to Platt who can
argue polemics much better than philosophy.

[Case]
Nothing in the rant you delivered suggested that Ricardo Cortes did not have
principles other than your assertion that he didn't.

[Ham]
Besides, the litany of conservative policies you've jammed into your
question have little if any bearing on your conclusion.  I said nothing
about taxes, ID, or home schooling in my note to Platt.  But if Americans
continue to abandon the principles by which their nation rose to greatness,
it will not long survive.  

[Case]
Exactly, the litany I threw out had not more connection to the conclusion
than did the one you threw out. I was just trying to follow the breadcrumbs
you threw out.

[Ham]
As for the notion that we can eliminate crime by legalizing criminal
behavior, this makes sense only to those whose concept of value is
pleasuring themselves.

[Case]
Making crimes out of harmless activities is just a waste of time and energy
but now you would have us outlaw masturbation?  The point is your
conclusions not only don't seem to follow from your arguments. They don't
even seem connected to them at all. They are just random statements
connected with therefors.