re: #112 What, me worry?

Well, prostitution is legal in Columbia, but it’s still immoral. On the whole, criminals do not make good truth tellers, but I wouldn’t consider pot smokers criminals.

But pot smokers are criminals. They really are. It doesn’t mater that you don’t consider them so.

You can do whatever you want in this world, but I get to make my judgments about people, just like you do. If they aren’t the same as yours, then they aren’t, but they’re still my judgments.

Sure. What you’re being asked is to defend that judgement. If your defense of it is just ‘That’s the way I feel’, then obviously nobody can say anything to you about it. But I’m wondering why you feel this way.

It seems like the distinction really isn’t the criminal/non-criminal thing to you, but the moral/immoral behavior, where you seem to not trust anyone who engages in immoral behavior.

I think that’s short-sighted, since people tend to be very compartmentalized. I know lots of people who are absolutely reliable at work, professionally, but outside the job are whackos or troublemakers of one form or another.

People are complex, and it’s hard to derive the whole from a part.