POT, PROGRESSIVE THINKING BAD FOR SOCIETY

Sean de Vega and George Pappas (letters to the editor, DI, Oct. 8) are
morons who should move to the progressive wastelands of Canada, and here's why.

Contrary to what these fools would gladly have you believe, pot is
dangerous because it undermines all ideas of

discipline and responsibility that are already decaying in this country due
to a liberal blight called "progressive thinking."

They believe in a near-anarchist logic in which individuals are free to act
as they want without fear of repercussions for behavior that is not only
unhealthy to them but to society.

Human waste like this, which makes up an uncomfortable number of my peers,
wants nothing to interfere with their irrationally selfish, short-sighted,
and self-destructive habits.

Destructive actions should be curbed. In order for a government to sustain
itself, it must be looking out for some sort of societal order and hold
people responsible for their actions. The government has already done the
wise thing and taken steps against drinking by raising the legal age and
continues to do so by combating the mass amount of blatant idiocy displayed
by Pappas and his misled ilk. It is a fact that marijuana use hurts
academic scores and productivity in not just academia but the workplace as
well. It is a fact that pot use does damage to the lungs, not to mention
the stupefying THC content.

The disturbingly high rate of potheads in this nation is all the more
reason to focus more on the issue. If check-fraud rates increased, you
wouldn't remove punishment on fraud for efficiency's sake.

People such as de Vega and Pappas live by this because many people like
them are afraid of a world in which owning up to personal responsibility
and (gasp) receiving negative criticism for negative behaviors are commonplace.

William Montague

Norway, Iowa, resident