We are born curious. It's what drives us to explore and learn. We touch, taste, feel, smell, and often do dangerous and/or outright stupid things because of curiosity. We have to know. Why climb Mt. Everest, visit Mars, crash atoms together, or add a new seasoning to meatloaf? Curiosity, a challenge, it's there.

We experiment and explore as infants and continue, if we're lucky, all the rest of our lives. We experiment formally in the Sciences and informally with hobbies, arts, and, yes, with chemicals such as drugs. We experiment to find ourselves, to advance civilization, to experience something new and unique, to create.

To limit curiosity, to put blinders on experimentation, limits culture and stagnates a Society. More importantly it's unnatural, unhuman. For the Puckered Right to infringe on curiosity is to infringe on our most natural Freedom and is beyond un-American.

A counter-argument beyond "Dude, you're full of shit!" is that, for example, we don't let kids experiment with explosives. Should we remove that limit for the sake of Freedom? No, of course not. But ask them why they want to play to explosives and see whether the information can be given to them in a non-lethal manner. Or for a different example "Just Say No" was an attempt to get and keep kids away from drugs. Like most Puckered Right attempts to control behavior, it failed. It failed because it lectured but didn't explain. Why should kids say no to drugs. Kids and adults do not like to be dictated to - tell them not to do something and guaranteed that something will be done if it's perceived as outlaw. Why alcohol or tobacco but not marijuana?

The Puckered Right likes to rule by authority not by logic and humanity. They like to stifle curiosity instead of nuture it. And then they wonder why Johnny can't read.