Right now they are legal. (Booze and tobacco) Seems to me the answer is not to heap more problems on society by legalizing drugs. We don’t need drugs laying around for kids to have easier access to than they already do. If we keep accelerating the problems the liberals are always happy to have another crisis program to launder money through. Legalize abortion and promote it and then give them tax dollars for the poors abortion then the abotion industry donates to the Democrat party. Same with unions.
I guess the best way that works to get rid of poor behavior is to tax it out of easy reach, but then it is the government that receives it.
My point is that giving up and legalizing any dangerous behavior only leads to new laws and taxes societal problems. It is the nature of the world to tend toward chaos and self destruction, but I’d like to stop it or slow it down, somehow.
Who pays for boozers' care when they overdose, or tobacco users' care when they get cancer? Should we ban alcohol and tobacco?
In a perfect Libertarian world they would have to pay higher premiums for their “lifestyle choice.” But in reality they want everyone else to share in the cost through premiums.
If you don't like your insurer's pricing policies, the conservative answer is to replace your insurer - not expand government to ban non-rights-violating acts.
I believe the solution is to have as small and unobtrusive government as constitutionally possible. Tobacco, booze, whoring, drugs or whatever behavior not withstanding, my question was what do Libertarians think should be done with the wretches that suffer the consequences of their own behavior.
I'm not a libertarian - but it seems clear to me that a small and unobtrusive government (which libertarians also favor) would not interfere in pricing or service under voluntary contracts such as insurance policies, and that someone suffering the uninsured consequences of their own behavior would be left to voluntary charity.
If you still maintain that "Legalizing drugs is just insane" my questions above still stand, and stand in need of answers.
Right now they are legal. (Booze and tobacco) Seems to me the answer is not to heap more problems on society by legalizing drugs.
Why shouldn't we take some problems off of society by banning the drugs alcohol and tobacco, which increase medical costs?
We don’t need drugs laying around for kids to have easier access to than they already do.
Since kids report that they can get pot more easily than beer or cigarettes, it looks like the most effective way to keep pot out of kids' hands is to legalize it for adults - so sellers have an incentive not to sell to kids (namely, the loss of their legal adult sales).
My point is that giving up and legalizing any dangerous behavior only leads to new laws and taxes societal problems.
It leads to new laws and taxes only if we let it - and it reduces or ends the problems aggravated or caused by illegality, notably the channeling of hyperinflated drug profits into criminal hands.
It is the nature of the world to tend toward chaos and self destruction, but I’d like to stop it or slow it down, somehow.
Why don't you want to not just slow it down but reverse it by banning the drugs alcohol and tobacco?