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To: SeekAndFind

Daniel Greenfield is absolutely correct. Legalizing an evil does not make it less evil.


6 posted on 02/04/2014 2:40:45 PM PST by livius
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And criminalizing every bad idea helps shrink leviathan how?

What next ? make gluttony a crime?


12 posted on 02/04/2014 2:50:06 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: livius

RE: Daniel Greenfield is absolutely correct. Legalizing an evil does not make it less evil.

I think the argument is not whether or not shooting heroine is evil — the argument is how BEST to minimize its use. Both conservatives and libertarians agree that using heroine is bad, the issue is POLICY — How best to minimize it with the least cost to society.

Libertarians claim that legalizing it ( which does not mean approving of it ) is the best way to achieve that. Conservatives claim that it will create more harm than good.

And so the debate goes...


13 posted on 02/04/2014 2:51:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: livius

No, but it may help get the bad batches off the market, because because producers will have an incentive to not kill their customers.


15 posted on 02/04/2014 2:53:29 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: livius

“Daniel Greenfield is absolutely correct. Legalizing an evil does not make it less evil.”

Sure. But that’s not the point.

The point is our huge bloated, para-military, police state that does nothing to protect against drugs and is just sitting there, ready to be used, by the next Hitler.


17 posted on 02/04/2014 2:56:39 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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