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@xdc the doc wrote:
… it is perfectly plausible that Turks could drop dead any minute.
But don’t let that worry you Turks!
@=xdc=zigzag wrote:
Lensman, I’m not having a go at you personally, and I respect people having different viewpoints,
No worries – I like a good pub argument as much as the next bloke 🙂
@=xdc=zigzag wrote:
Now where’s my Guardian?….
bloody lefties…..;)
Prohibition was never enacted in Britain, so that argument is that all our current alcohol problems are due to that is entirely without substance.
A lot of crime is drug related, but what makes you think that will be reduced if hard drugs were legalised? Booze is legal, and if anything there is MORE crime related to that than to drugs. Popularising something will increase the associated problems because hard drugs are highly addictive. The body demands more, and people will try and fuel that demand in any way they can, whether legal or not. People steal for fag money already – just because they can be purchased over the counter does not change how people acquire the funds.
Legalising such drugs says society deems it acceptable to become dependent upon them. That’s what drugs do – make you dependent. The same is not true of alcholol – in itself it is not addictive. Most people who consume alcohol do not become addicted; most people to consume hard drugs do. Worse than that, for some drugs like heroin you need ever increasing doses to get the same “hit”.
I don’t see how legalising something and, by implication, easing access to it could result in less people trying it, and therefore a reduction in addicts. The opposite would be true.
Can someone explain how a small increase in tax revenue can possibly compensate for allowing more young people to become junkies?
Government has every right to impinge on personal freedoms if those can have a detrimental affect elsewhere. Owning a gun could be a “personal freedom”, but surely we don’t want them legalising here do we? Looking at child porn could be interpreted as “personal freedom”, but I sure as hell don’t want that legalising either.
I’m fairly agnostic on legalising of cannabis, to be honest – it’s a Class C drug that I don’t know too much about, other than it’s addictive qualities are pretty low (much lower than nicotine, I believe).
But legalising Class A drugs – pure and utter madness. And no, I don’t read the Daily Mail.
PS: Many drugs are legalised for medical purposes – even heroin.
@=XDC= MadHippy wrote:
@Lensman wrote:
Legalising drugs is madness.
Does that include alcohol and tobacco? Very harmful drugs there? ….
So where’s the problem in legalising it’s use??? Especially for medical purposes?Cocaine etc are addictive hallucinogens. Tobacco simply kills you over time, but does not impair you like the harder drugs. I don’t mind being getting a lift from someone that had had a fag, but if he’s just smoked a joint I don’t want to be on the same road as him. I can tell if someone’s too pissed to drive, but it’s harder to tell if someone is a bit high.
Alcohol is different – it has a place in pretty much every culture from the dawn of time. Yes, it’s the cause of massive problems, and I think if it were “new”, then no modern time government in its right mind would make it legal. But it’s not – it’s ancient and predates by many centuries the idea that governments can outlaw such substances. Remember the US tried to do that in the 1920’s and failed big-time.
But back to drugs – I really don’t want to be sitting in a pub and the bloke next to me is shooting up or blowing coke smoke over me – tobacco smoke is bad enough. And I *really* don’t want my son to grow up thinking its OK to stick needles in his arms just to get a floaty feeling.
Some drugs are already OK for medical purposes, but it should be done in under medical supervision and control – that is different from the cocaine cake at issue here.
Seriously – legalising hard drugs would severely fuck up our society. The argument that it would cut down crime is bollocks. When you are hooked, you don’t give a shit whether it is legal or not – you just need your next fix. You will still steal to fund your habit. People still steal now to fund their fags and booze.
Certainly you should make all reasonavble efforts to find & destroy the spawn beacon, short of gettng your arse shot off and losing the flag you were defending.
I think that was what ziggy was saying – he could not find the beacon. If he could, he would have killed it
I problem I have with beacons is that I hear one beeping away and so go and look for it. When I find one, it is not obvious whose beacon it is – hence the comments above about people shooting your own beacon. I think you have to be looking right at it for the beacon icon to be displayed – green = yours, red = enemy’s.
Of course, by the time you’ve done this, some bugger has sneaked up and stabbed you…. 🙄
I agree with Ziggy here. The primary aim is defending the flag – locating & killing the spawn is secondary.
The only thing different I would have done in that scenario is to bitch at my teammates and ask for help. With a couple more guys you can locate & kill the spawn as well as defending the flag. Being left there on your own is a bit tricky.
So, no, I don’t think it’s lame.
@=XDC=NeonSamurai wrote:
Fantastic! Hat’s off to you Pharty, that’s some funny commentary!
PMSL 😆 😆
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EA Press Release
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