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Old 02-23-2012, 12:30 AM
 
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I'm willing to bet there are plenty of fights in sporting events. Let's ban beer at football games. Ever heard of soccer hooligans?
I don't think you understood the sentence, evaluate the costs and benefits. Every single time, you need to do a cost benefit analysis. Banning alcohol at sport games have a huge cost on freedom, and almost no benefit.
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Old 02-23-2012, 12:37 AM
 
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I don't think you understood the sentence, evaluate the costs and benefits. Every single time, you need to do a cost benefit analysis. Banning alcohol at sport games have a huge cost on freedom, and almost no benefit.
What makes sports so sacred? This is all about sex not about safety.

The self righteous bible thumpers care as much about strippers as they do for massacred Muslims in the mid east

Save your crocodile tears for the young and naive
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Old 02-23-2012, 12:40 AM
 
Location: Twin Cities, MN
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What makes sports so sacred? This is all about sex not about safety.

The self righteous bible thumpers care as much about strippers as they do for massacred Muslims in the mid east

Save your crocodile tears for the young and naive
Precisely. +1
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Old 02-23-2012, 12:49 AM
 
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What makes sports so sacred? This is all about sex not about safety.

The self righteous bible thumpers care as much about strippers as they do for massacred Muslims in the mid east

Save your crocodile tears for the young and naive
This has nothing to do with sex or sports, and I'm not even a christian. It's all about cost and benefits. You are thinking in black and white terms. In this way, Why do we not ban alcohol, as it is dangerous and we do ban heroin who is also dangerous.

You need to run a cost benefit analysis. Then you will see that banning alcohol at sport games have a huge cost, as it is affecting a lot of people. And has almost no benefit. Banning alcohol sale in strip clubs have a smaller cost, and a much larger benefit. Its pretty traumatizing to deal with abusive men during sex, while drunk people in a sport event is harmless.
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Old 02-23-2012, 12:52 AM
 
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Precisely. +1
You are really strange. Union workers are so important that you have to force people to pay them money, despite the fact that the evidence is against you.

However, sex workers you don't care about.
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Old 02-23-2012, 12:54 AM
 
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This has nothing to do with sex or sports, and I'm not even a christian. .
You don't have to be a Christian to be a prude

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, while drunk people in a sport event is harmless.
How can anyone say that with a straight face?
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Old 02-23-2012, 12:55 AM
 
Location: Twin Cities, MN
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Straw man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 02-23-2012, 01:01 AM
 
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You don't have to be a Christian to be a prude
My concern has always been the sex workers, and not the morality. I am in favor of legalizing prostitution like it is here. However, I am no liberalist and believe government has a role protecting workers when the market fails.


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How can anyone say that with a straight face?
What kind of sport events do you go to?

If it is a problem that drunks beat up random people or go rampage in the city, then yes I will be in favor of banning alcohol if it makes a difference. But you need to do a cost benefit analysis, which you still haven't done. You can't just say that since something has a bad effect, then we should ban it.
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Old 02-23-2012, 01:04 AM
 
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My wife is from Norway. She is from an island on the Hurtigruta route. You are a horrible representation of what Norway represents. No wonder you left Norway, you are not compatible!!
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Old 02-23-2012, 01:05 AM
 
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Sorry, not a straw man. I had a big debate with you about unions here The problem with unions.
Where you left, because you couldn't explain why poverty rates are higher in forced unionism states. That completely debunked your argument that forced unionism is a necessary evil to not become a third word country.
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