I like freedom. That does not mean that I have a "right" to live off the work of others. Freedom is hard. I think most people want somebody to tell them how to live and what to do. Not me. I decided a long time ago that a life of drugs and alcohol abuse was not going to bring me happiness. I saw the results of such behavior all around me. I still have vices. I'm addicted to cigarettes. It was a bad choice. I could have chosen heroin or crack in my pursuit of happiness. That would have been even worse. I'd like to live a few more years, but I'd prefer to have a normal or even short life as a free man than to live forever as a slave. I usually will come down on the side of personal freedom and responsibility over putting up with a bunch of rules promulgated by compulsive control freaks and know it alls. I probably would have quit smoking years ago if the anti-smoking Nazis didn't pi** me off so much. We have so many stinking laws on the books now, I'm probably breaking some of them right now. I think Patrick Henry summed it up best, "Give me liberty or give me death". Or the State Motto of New Hampshire, "Live free or die". BTW, I think the State motto of Georgia has been changed to "ZERO TOLERANCE".