A:
Yeah, but see, no one ever actually argues AGAINST marijuana being legalized.
B:
Oh, sure they do.
A:
I'm sure they do somewhere, but I have never actually heard anyone argue the position.
B:
Well, people say that it's a gateway drug, or makes your worthless or whatever. Those people are arguing against it being legalized.
A:
See, that's it! People kind of state those positions, but they're always attributed to someone else! I've never actually heard anyone say, "I think marijuana should remain illegal because it is a gateway to harder drugs." Have you?
B:
Uhhh... no. No, I guess not. That's just because of the people we hang out with, though, a bunch of liberal 20-somethings aren't going to argue that point.
A:
But I have heard people say they don't trust Obama! I've heard people say that Bush was misunderstood and that history will vindicate him. I've heard other kind of conservative viewpoints, but never on pot.
B:
When it comes to pot, it's always a meta-argument?
A:
Well. I was thinking more that it's always a second-order argument.
B:
Uh, ok. It's sort of like U2.
A:
How?
B:
When you see them on TV, there are always a lot of people at their shows. But I don't know anyone who has ever been to a U2 show, or even has the slightest interest in going.
A:
I think that's a little different, but right on.
B:
We need to find this cave of pot-hating U2 fans and tell them to stop letting their viewpoints seep into the general consciousness.