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[The Straight Story]

80. So you respect some choices but want to control others

You don't like x so people who make that choice aren't really capable of making that choice.

Gun ownership is pretty wide, you have a problem with less than one percent of said gun owners and want to paint the many based on the few. We call that stereotyping. But that is ok to do in cases where you don't like a group.

Drinking has a higher health and cost to society. Pollution, car exhaust, and a host of other things cause problems but since you are ok with those things you ignore them when making judgements about smoking, because you like the former and not the latter. That's a consistency problem. Your body, your choice? Sure, unless your using that body to go to a bar you and others want to go to. Then, suddenly, removing choice from adults is a good thing.

When you get down to your core values and apply those to other things you seem to want to waffle on the core values and only apply them to things you like. Which is rather biased.

Consistency means you may not always like where things go but you back them up anyway because you believe, at the core of it all, in freedoms and applying the same core values across a wide spectrum of things.

The main reason I am here is I am pro-choice, even though I can't have an abortion. I am for gay marriage, even though I am straight, I am for people being allowed to own guns even though I don't own one. I am a freedom and choice loving liberal at the core - not just when I feel like it or for my own pet issues.