[ejroth]

The greatest evil of our society and the root of our probable downfall is our inability to leave each other alone.

[robertpaulsen]

"is our inability to leave each other alone."

For once we agree. Why can't the drug users leave us be?

They place demands on social services, fill up our hospitals, courts and jails, spread disease, rob, steal and prostitute for drug money, and contribute nothing.

If they would just leave us alone.

[tpaine]

ejroth:

"--- The greatest evil of our society and the root of our probable downfall is our inability to leave each other alone. ---"



Prohibitionism is a social disease, - an obsession that 'sin' can be legislated away.

As Arthur Koestler put it:

"-- The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation. We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion. --"