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Pepperm1nts said
@Daemon: You don't understand though. We don't need to fight back harder. That's counterproductive and flat-out wasteful. What we need to do is legalize drugs, regulate them and tax them. That'll stop a big portion of drug-related illegal activities and the government will make a profit. No need to send people out to die needlessly, or cause further violence that risks escalating the matter into something far more costly and bloody.And clearly you've completely missed the point of Breaking Bad. It's not idolizing a criminal. If anything it shows how our prohibition laws have paved the way for a BOOMING illegal trade market, and smuggling. It shows you how bad we have let things become. There wouldn't be big drug operations like the ones you see in the show if we hadn't given them the means with which to create these illegal enterprises.We don't need harsher measures; We need to stop being stupid. We've spent far too much money on the war on drugs. Too many lives have been lost. The last thing we need is to spend more money on it and risk escalating the violence.You don't fight these things with fire. That's not how real life works.@Evan: Sorry, I lied.

I'm actually in agreement with PepperM1nts as far as making drugs legal and then regulating/taxing them. But not OVER regulation either, the government just flat needs to keep their nose out of our personal damn lives as much as possible. But there needs to be SOME regulation for safety, etc. It would solve a lot of problems, AND might help the US chip away at our friggin monstrosity of a debt that we've built up, thanks to our emperor *cough* I mean president.

THAT is the last I will be saying on the matter of politics, because I seriously don't want to leave Cara a shitstorm of crap when she comes back online LMAO. I don't REALLY want to see a Carazilla. Not directed at me, anyway D:

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TheEvanCat said
MOTHERFUCKER I WAS DEFUSING POLITICS. SHUT THE FUCK UP AND ENJOY GEE DUBS GETTING BRUSHED.

LMFAO! THiiiiiis xD

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Deamonbane said
*nods* True, but then if we made drugs legal, the dealers really wouldn't all of a sudden become legal businessmen. No, they would find another means of finance. Maybe kidnapping for ransom, weapons dealing, extortion, casinos, underage and/or forced prostitution etc...

^ For sure. If drugs were made legal, the price of them would drop and they wouldn't make the big money they are now. It would be much less incentive for them to be in the drug-making/selling business, so they'd probably turn to other illegal means of making money. It's not about the drugs I think, so much as it is about making as much money as they can--and sadly, it's a lot easier to make money by illegal means than it is lawful ones ><

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For me, I do agree that drug policies in the United Starts are far, far, FAAAAR too much. But, right now, they are what they are, it's the law, and until it's changed LEGALLY, it needs to be followed. That might irk some people I feel that way (might irk a lot more that I'd legalize and regulate drugs instead of keeping every damn thing illegal), but that's how I feel. I've taken some classes in college that really showed me just how damn political are drug laws were. Take Marijuana, for instance. The guy who first pushed those laws into place (forgot his dumbass name), he lied about the shit--made crap up, like by smoking marijuana you'd suddenly turn into an axe murderer and kill your entire family. He used fearmongering and lies to get the drug made illegal, and now because there's such a black mark on the drug, our government still lists it as having no medicinal value whatsoever They do this in the face of every single damn piece of scientific evidence that states otherwise.

But just because our drug laws are screwy, it doesn't excuse the drug dealers for their actions. They kill, they kidnap, they are indiscriminate about who they sell to, they lace their shit making it more likely to kill you then not. THEN other countries smuggle the shit across borders, bringing even more problems into the target country (often times the US) although we're far from the only country who has drugs smuggled in. That's like saying the murderer is in the right, because you disagree with societies laws about killing people O.o

**EDIT**

I'll put an addendum here that not ALL dealers do that shit, alot of that is the drug cartels and the gangs moreso then the little chump drug dealers here and there. But the point being, a LOT of drug dealers and most especially the cartels ARE like this. And even worse.

Damn

I know it's lots of money, lots of time, lots of effort too. I know that children can be little pains in the asses, break stuff, make your life a living hell sometimes. But I also know they can bring joy beyond imagining, and I know that they can sometimes be a hell of a lot smarter than adults. Yes, raising a child can be/often IS a royal pain in the ass. Yes they can be little shitheads sometimes and make you want to throw yourself out of the nearest window. I get it, I'm not completely naiive and stupid.

BUT, with all the joy a child can bring, I just think for all the complaints about them, it'd be worth it. While I've never raised a child of my own, I've spent a lot of time around my own family...watched my cousins when my uncle had to go out, been around friends of my family who have kids. So I've seen how annoying they can be (my cousin made me want to toss him out of the airplane with parachute on his back LOL), BUT they can be really great too! I honestly want a child someday, so if I ever find anyone to be with in a romantic way, hopefully she'll either be up for adopting or is capable of having a child of her own.

And I apologize for the sudden seriousness in an otherwise light-hearted topic D:

Prehistoric animals in a fantasy setting?

That picture makes me want to have this in an RP. I love dinosaurs too, even if I know very little about them. I've NEVER seen them in a fantasy setting before in any RP...yet, like some have said, (including you Jannah :P) fantasy has a lot of dragons so why tf not? Dragons are common yet not so much with our Saurian friends. I'd love to see this more often in RPs, it could lead to some very interesting things.

On a note about being very careful with them, why? Since when does RPing have to exactly duplicate stuff IRL? If someone *wants* a desert dino in a jungle environment for their RP, what's the problem with it? It's RP, it's fiction, and I don't think one should limit themselves to something just because it's not "realistic." Neither are elves shooting fireballs from their hands or dragons swooping down from the sky enveloping an entire city in a rain of fire, but it's done. I say cut the RPs some slack, it's supposed to be fun :)

When you make a roleplay do you like making several characters or just one?

I'm the same way, if I have time for it I actually prefer a couple of characters. That said, there are some RPs where that ends up coming back to bite me in the ass. It's happened more than once! BUuuut, MOST of the time I RP at least two characters, I've been known to go as high as 3. This is doubly true of 1x1s, where I very briefly had like 10 characters for a Harry Potter RP consisting of nearly entirely non-canons. Sadly, when the guild went down I lost contact with who I had that RP with and I cannot for the life of me remember her sn :( :(

But, back to the point, I definitely like to have more than one character!

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LOL Pepperm1nts; it's not so much that they are smuggling drugs that bothers me, it's that usually those cartels that do it don't give af how many innocent people die when their stupid asses get into a damn shootout with a rival gang and/or the police. So yeah, forgive me if I have no problem sitting up in a chopper raining down fiery hell upon them :P

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Kill Bones said
I can't draw worth shitDrawing was my dump stat

Oh god, I just read this LMFAO! I am the same way, Kill Bones--I'm lucky to draw a damn stick figure ROFL! Your use of the term "dump stat"...it makes me wonder if you play Fallout? I've heard that with other RPGs, but it seems more commonly related to the Fallout games xD

I'd rather have drawing a dump stat than Intelligence :P

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TheEvanCat said
Yeah, Coasties do some pretty cool shit. If you're not into rescuing people, they have jobs that involve or Plus, unless you're DOG you're not spending a year in buttfuck Afghanistan.Plus they have the sexy nautical uniforms without the buffoonery of the Navy and their seventy uniform variations.

You had me at jobs that involve blasting drug smugglers with .50 cal rifles. Where do I sign up for that shit? xD