I was having a "discussion" with a communist on CreateDebate and it had occured to me that democracy easily has the ability to take away freedom. it isn't freedom at all, because there is still power over individuals, and that is the power of the majority.

keep in mind, we were debating Capitalism vs. Socialism, and of course that shit wandered. The thing is, in order to ensure individual freedoms, we must set permanent laws... which defeats the purpose of democracy.

such as prostitution. prostitution is a way of making money by providing a service that's perfectly legal to do for free. yet, states have the ability to make it illegal, thus, restricting our individual freedoms. this is something that we do privately in a consenting form, yet, the power of the people has restricted the rights of the individual.


I have a theory, that Facism (communism, socialism, totalitarianism, w/e you want) has two ways of being applied to a country. Either
1. through a dictator who enforces laws that restrict individual freedoms
or
2. through a democracy in which the people eventually vote in laws that take away our individual rights because of fear and extreme cases.


the thing is, why can't we create laws permanently allowing us to live our private lives the way we want? what's the crime if I decide to drop Acid while watching "300"?

The crime of Acid, or why it was outlawed, was that a large number of people were simply doing incredibly stupid and dangerous things.

Example:
Jumping off building into traffic.

While jumping off building and dying would normally be the end... they involved other people by landing in traffic and endangering others lives.

so does getting drunk or being depressed. are we gonna ban alcohol or mandate psychology sessions for everyone?

what acid does is make you hallucinate and see things in several dimensions. why some had jumped off of buildings is probably because they had been tripping to the point where they thought they could fly, or they couldn't take the images anymore.

once again, based on extreme situations. it's like banning guns because there have been cases of shoot outs.

We DID ban alcohol, if you remember. It just didn't go over well.

i know, but do you think it was right? as in, for those who think it's right to ban acid, would have to think it's right to ban alcohol.

we learn from history. prohibition was based on ideology and we all see it as wrong now.

Alcohol is actually a meal in itself, it is full of protein, vitamins, carbohydrates, like I said a mean in itself

shrooms can be a meal, and, they make you enter the awesome land of snickers men.

cocaine lowers your appetite. so does crack and meth.

the problem with child porn is someone is being victimized and you're giving money or views to that. a download helps them in their networking of child porn.

although, lolicon technically has no victimization, so it shouldn't be illegal.