If your position has merit, you ought to be able to argue for it without recourse to the Super Secret Radgeek Sex Files of your imagination. And even if it doesn’t, there’s still something to be said for politeness.
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Then the
poor farmerswill have to go back to whatever vile things they used to do to keep from having to earn a living.
What, like farming?
The whole debate here is over whether the farmers involved should be left alone to farm a profitable crop that people want — opium poppies — or whether the U.S. and Iraqi governments should violently force them back into farming unprofitable crops — such as oranges, pomegranates, and rice — that most customers can get for cheaper from elsewhere. In either case, whether lucrative or hardscrabble, growing crops for the use of willing customers, or for your own use, is hard work, and certainly counts as earning a living through honest labor.
In that respect it compares pretty well to what the troops
and the narcs do with their time in that area, i.e., leeching off of tax dollars that are taken from the rest of us by force, and spending their time on the clock shoving harmless farmers around, poisoning their fields, and ruining their livelihoods, all so that absolutely everyone in the world can be forced to prop up the U.S. government’s domestic policy of narcotics prohibition, no matter what the human cost for people living in very different circumstances.
Then the “poor farmers” will have to go back to whatever vile things they used to do to keep from having to earn a living.
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