The less virtuous a people, the greater its need for laws.
We tried that once.
We got Al Capone and friends....................
Any virtue taken to its limit becomes a vice. That includes freedom.
Hell no.
It’s the same BS that the government should have anything to do with what we put in our bodies. We don’t need an ATF, a DEA, nor an FDA telling us we can’t carry firarms, do weed, *OR* HQC; it’s simply none of anyone else’s business unless and until we deprive them of life, liberty or property what we consume, carry, or say.
The second someone thinks they should have the slightest say in what I ingest, read, write, or carry for self defense I consider them to be better off dead and a blight on the republic.
I’m a little slow, but something I never realized until someone pointed it out just the other day —
When people want to ban alcohol, they had to actually pass a Constitutional Amendment.
When people decided that alcohol should no longer be banned, they had to pass another Constitutional Amendment.
When people decided marijuana was bad, they took a vote and then said, “That’s stuff’s illegal.”
When some states decided it might not be so bad, those states took a vote and said, “That stuff’s OK.”
Double-standard much?
No. I am all for temperance — which is a personal choice. I am not for prohibition — which is the choice of the state and, in our previous experiment with it, created other problems.
Prohibition was a law for women.
The temperance movement was largely pushed along by women. When they got their right to vote in 1920, it was also the first major law that this voting block pushed.
It failed, or course, just like so many other ridiculous/idiotic laws fail, go ignored or are selectively enforced. These are laws to appease certain groups, they make “political sense,” but make little rational sense when it comes to the nature of man, trying to enforce them, if that is really what the majority wants (when they figure out what that means for them)...
I gave up alcohol back in March to strengthen my immune system. I was never a heavy drinker (a couple of glasses of wine with dinner maybe 2-3 times a week) yet I feel more focused and productive without it. Maybe it’s just a placebo effect or maybe it really did make a difference. I think it should be a personal choice.
Swing back towards even more “zero tolerance” laws? None for me, thanks!
Benjamin Franklin: Moderation in all things, including moderation! The extreme consequence of moderation is that the creativity in many individuals wouldn’t exist.”
Sure. Why not. We’re repeating all of our other past mistakes... Let’s throw this bucket of napalm on the fire while we’re at it...
However, the only lives alcohol improves are those of the people who make millions from selling it. We've been conditioned to believe that fun cannot be had without alcohol in one form or another. Dine at a fine restaurant and you must have fine wine. Go to a ballgame (not lately) and you must have a few beers. Socialize with friends and you must have a few cocktails.
The constant drumbeat of advertising makes it clear from an early age that you are a loser unless you have a drink in your hand, but you are very cool, attractive and desirable with one.
Meanwhile, the death and destruction continues to mount, wrought by people who have simply had one too many and get behind the wheel anyway or those tend to become agitated and violent after a few drinks or those who tragically slip inexorably into abject alcoholism.
My call is not to prohibit alcohol, but instead to avoid it on an individual basis. Clearly, MacArthur is a fine example of lifelong avoidance as is our current president.
I’ll comment as soon as I finish this beer.
No to anything that tells me what to do, period. I don’t need some bureaucrat or politician telling me what I should or shouldn’t do. This whole pandemic makes this feeling even stronger. My brother always reminds me every Friday night when I visit, “you can’t hang everyone”. I am willing to compromise.
Trying to outlaw something that the majority of people are just going to do anyway is a recipe for disaster.
Temperance does not equal abstinence.
We’ve been doing prohibition for the last 50 years. It’s shredded the constitution, destroyed liberty, and not stopped anybody from doing drugs. It’s time to BAN prohibition and never try that stupid path again.