Do you believe it was wrong to repeal Prohibition?Originally Posted by rvg
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Do you believe it was wrong to repeal Prohibition?
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No, I do not.
"And if the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war and not popularity seeking. If they want peace, they and their relatives must stop the war." - William Tecumseh Sherman
“The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.” - Warren Buffett
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Then you are acknowledging that, in some cases, decriminalizing something that is currently illegal can be beneficial to society.
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Yes.
"And if the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war and not popularity seeking. If they want peace, they and their relatives must stop the war." - William Tecumseh Sherman
“The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.” - Warren Buffett
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Short easy and painless, you guys really need to think things through better before you embark on experimenting and start outweighting things.
Last edited by Fragony; 11-26-2012 at 16:00.
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The only way this sentence makes sense is if I read "outlawing" or "decriminalizing" for "outweighting."
Bonus points for making me read the sentence three times and still having no idea what you're saying.
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Exactly that really, you are reading just fine.
Edit, I suck. I meant 'start outweighting things'
Last edited by Fragony; 11-26-2012 at 16:00.
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As a hypothetical - if legalisation guaranteed not to increase consumption, increased tax revenue, saved money on prisons and took out a big chunk of organised crime. Would you be in favour?
I'm trying to understand if you don't believe that these will happen or if your objections have other origins.
Last edited by Idaho; 11-26-2012 at 16:24.
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I would not. My biggest issue with the legalization is that it largely lifts the social stigma. I want the stigma to remain in place.
"And if the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war and not popularity seeking. If they want peace, they and their relatives must stop the war." - William Tecumseh Sherman
“The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.” - Warren Buffett
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Laws already exist for this - the equivalent of drunk and disorderly, creating a public nuisance, unfit for work and so on. The other half is parents, frankly.
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Social stigma is reliant on so much more than the law. Being a drunk is still a source of shame for many an individual and family, despite what is said about addiction being an illness, and the activity being entirely legal. Dont need to look far within UK and US society to see other examples of perfectly legal behaviour which carries a social stigma within particular communities.
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Would you still be in favour of it if it would greatly actually aid chunks of organised crime and make everybody worse off just because of you being kinda egocentric, being egocentric enough to allow that to happen just because you feel you have the right to smoke it. Because that's kinda it in the end. Drugs are currency. You cannot fight it.
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Please show me an example of a first-world nation where decriminalizing an intoxicant has increased organized crime. Because every example I can think of has the opposite effect.
Counter-factual posturing is counter-factual.
"Drugs are currency. You cannot fight it."—another sentence that seems to be saying something, but on close examination turns out to be word salad.
Last edited by Lemur; 11-26-2012 at 17:14.
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