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Unread 06-05-2003, 02:22 PM   #31
Talik
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Originally posted by lukasz70
ITS NOT WRONG you ignorant person sorry, just gets to me some times

do some research before. thats like saying drinking is wrong, sure only IF YOU ABUSE IT.

everyone is so caught up on the idea of smoking pot, if everyone can just look past that and look at the benefits that it has for medicinal and commercial purposes, cannabis can be turned into so much, clothes, paper, oils, plastics...
Arrr... did you even read my previous posts!? I've been very adamant about my arguments that pot is not wrong!

I was merely saying that even if it were wrong, religious belief would not justify it, nor does it prove that it is not wrong.

There are a lot of people who believe that pot is evil, and I believe giving them weak arguments as to why it is not(ie, religious belief) actually hurts our cause. Not helps it.

The best way to get someone to follow your cause, is not to throw out as many arguments as you can no matter how weak they are, but to convince them of your own competence. Once someone believes in your ability to reason and make moral decisions, they are much more likely to take your arguments seriously. Would you rather listen to Einstein's pot arguments, or Hitler's? The answer has nothing to do with who can construct a better argument, who has more points, or even who is right, but everything to do with who already has your faith in their ability to make a moral decision.

This is why I get so frustrated when I see someone arguing toward the same goal as me with a poorly constructed paragraph with no capitalization, punctuation, proper spelling, and poor reasoning. It actually hurts my argument.

Please, before you tell me to do some more research, read my lengthy post on the previous page. Or, at least give me some clue as to what I should be researching, and I will gladly do my homework.
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