[tpaine]

If you choose morality, that is when you get a truly great country, like America in the 1800s, as you mentioned.

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Punch up a search on the 'victorian compromise'. You will find that America of the 1800's was a quite libertarian society, - drugs, prostitution, gambling were tolerated in limited red light districts all over the country. Hypocrisy was rampant. - But we prospered.
Then the bluenosed prohibitionists got in power, and its been downhill for 'morality' ever since.

You need to read, and *understand*, some U.S. history.

[Tomalak]

You will find that America of the 1800's was a quite libertarian society, - drugs, prostitution, gambling were tolerated in limited red light districts all over the country."

That only proves my point. In those days, the state didn't need to crack down on such things because the American people were so moral that almost no one did them. Not now, though.