They would tell you if we outlaw drugs, we take away their agency.
I will wonder if much the opposite is true: If we outlaw drugs, we add to their agency. We are not forced to keep laws. We may be subject to punishments if we do not keep them, but we are not forced to keep them.
And, I think of a place where it is reasoned that if we do not have laws, we do not have sin. It is a scripture from my religion (2 Nephi 2:13 in the Book of Mormon).
"And if ye shall say there is no law, ye shall also say there is no sin. If ye shall say there is no sin, ye shall also say there is no righteousness. And if there be no righteousness there be no happiness. And if there be no righteousness nor happiness there be no punishment or misery. And if these things are not there is no God. And if there is no God we are not, neither the earth; for there could have been no creation of things, neither to act nor to be acted upon; wherefore, all thing must have vanished away."
True choice comes when consequences are attached. If there are no consequences, there is nothing wrong with whatever a person decides to do. And if there is nothing wrong with whatever he decides to do, then there is no happiness from choosing the right. And, if there is no righteousness nor happiness, there is no punishment for doing wrong and no misery for regretting that you did do wrong. And, if these things are not -- if there is no good and evil -- then there is no God, for God is the source of good. When we think of good, we think of it coming from God. And if there is no God, there is no earth, for God created earth, which is the place we were sent to to make our choices. And, if there is no life on earth, all things must have vanished away.
It would seem to me, then, that earth is the place we came to to make choices, and we can make those choices because punishments were affixed.
(Indexes: agency, libertarian)
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