Reply #45: No absolute moral ground

[sweetheart]

We have a bad cultural habit of trying to legislate the letter of the law, rather than the spirit of
the law. In the spirit of the law, you do not harm to others, and you love your kids unconditionally.
Then if you smoke grass, and your 15 years old comes up to you and asks you what its like and that
him and his friends can get some hash, you are in a conundrum. You can share some of your grass
with your kid, and know he/she got safe/clean stuff, or accept a street supplier. I'd say the
former is more responsible parenting. If you're doing nothing but drugs and you live in squalor
and your kids live in squalor with you, and you are unable to provide for them, and its just getting
to be a bad scene, then thats not responsible parenting.

For all you nazi, hardass "take the kids away" sort of nutjobs, read this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=216&topic_id=3703#3722

The spirit of the law should be that parents need leeway to teach kids about drugs, and sometimes
this involves teaching them how to experiment responsibly, and "knowing" and managing the situation,
which can mean controlling your kids supply.

People love to raise kids in their fantasy television image, but on earth, is not worth breaking
up a family except in the most extreme cases.