I guess you missed it, I never said smoking pot would be dishonorable if it were legalized. But it is illegal now so smoking and breaking the law is dishonorable. Some people will never admit to being dishonorable. Others don’t care. And some do.
The point associated with Phelps’ use is that he engaged in an illegal activity and that should not be condoned.
Nobody’s thinking of Teh Children!!1!1! :rolleyes:
No, you pusillanimous pissant, breaking the law is not necessarily dishonorable. Christ on a crutch, you think breaking a stupid law is dishonorable?
Yep. And some people just have no self control. They do things because they can and don’t stop to ponder whether they should.
You are a worthless waste of air, boy I hope you never have kids. For their sake.
I was asking you to respond to something else, actually. I’ll quote it here:
Like that dishonorable bitch Rosa Parks for instance.
Look, a little kid isn’t going to cry because Phelps smokes pot. The little kid probably isn’t going to ever know. An older young person is going to have to confront the pot issue, and isn’t going to be crushed that his or her idol smoked some. Jesus Kee-rist, our fucking president was a pot-head. Is he shattering little kids’ dreams? C’mon!
I see your point about conflicting goals but I took it as obeying the country’s laws is working for it’s good.
I don’t see the right to smoke pot as on par with say, equal rights for all.
Yes, obviously if my kids ever smoke pot I have Failed As A Parent[sup]tm[/sup]. Are you even listening to yourself?
Wait, you actually think that everybody should obey every law no matter what? Do you think for yourself, or just do what holy Authority tells you to do?
Yes, in many cases it is.
People who will follow any law blindly without at any point questioning why the law is in place are easy meat for tyrants – or even for garden-variety government officials who want carte blanche to set up one set of rules for hoi polloi and one for the ruling class.
Good to hear you don’t call the cops on jaywalkers though. At least the rod up your ass hasn’t rooted that deeply. Yet.
But it isn’t. Frankly I don’t care what is for the good of the country. Sometimes, people are helped if the law is followed. Other times, the law hurts people. To me, that means it isn’t immoral to break that law, and in some cases, it’s moral to break it in order to draw attention to the injustice.
Neither do I, but to this point you haven’t shown you believe the distinction exists and I’m not sure you’re getting it.
Brilliant. For a while there, I thought you were serious…
Looks like I won’t be going to Subway for sandwiches any more, either.
I don’t get it…Phelps is being paid to plug a product (breakfast cereal, in the case of Kellog Corp.). The advertising gurus have made Phelps part of sympathetic magic-if you eat this crap, you too might be a good looking young man, who breaks swimming records. So what does his (alleged) pot use have to do with this? what does “morality” have to do with winning swimming races? I could see some disgust, if Phelps were found to be a rapist…but smoking a little pot? Bill Clinton did the same 9oops, I forgot-he never inhaled).:smack:
I love it. Because god knows the 17-year-olds who work behind the counter are high on something, as are most of Subway’s after-hours clients.
If I have any problem with Phelps smoking a bong, and I don’t really, it’s only because it’s yet another blatant example of how something can be legal for some or not for others. Where were the Feds after those pics got released of Katherine Heigl smoking an apple bong? Where were they when France McDormand posed for the cover of High Times?
I just want to say that this thread title is one of my favoritest evar!!!11!!
Whenever I see or hear about Michael Phelps, all I think of is oooooh, oooh, Michael Phelps smoked pot,ooooh oohhhh, oooooh, the demon weed.
Friends and strangers look at me strangely at the idiotic grin I get on my face during these moments.
I jus’ wanna say - as part of my job, I go into a local county jail about once a week and talk to incarcerated folks. Typically, they’re not up on current events.
They did, however, all know about Michael Phelps smokin’ weed.
I’m sorry if someone posted this before, but I didn’t see it: Kellogg’s sponsorship contract with Phelps was up at the end of the month anyway.
Weedies! Breakfast of Champions!
Phelps may have peaked, but I think it would be funny if he won a bunch more medals in the next Olympics and told Kellogg’s to fuck off.