Okay, Will it work this way as well?
“Abuse all the children you want, since you are free to be a pedophile, but don’t complain when the other folks stone you in the town square for your harm to thier innocent children”. Sounds good huh?
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Prohibition of drugs has worked out no better than prohibition of alcohol. A lot of people who are worried about legalization are afraid of what the coloreds will get up to.
The ol' slippery slope argument that if government doesn't control you ,other people will suffer.
That is the argument socialists use to deny the right to self-defense,bearing arms,how much water you can use,what windows you may put in your new house,ad infinitum.
That’s a complete strawman, but hey, I’ll shred it anyway.
Why not deal with this the way the Founding Fathers intended? Get the one-size fits all fedgov out of it. The phrase “government of limited powers” ring a bell?
Then states get to experiment and compete. Maybe California would legalize everything, letting its citizens “Abuse all the children you want, since you are free to be a pedophile, but don’t complain when the other folks stone you in the town square for your harm to thier innocent children.” Meanwhile, Texas would be free to string up child abusers and pedophiles (assuming the fedgov would also let us, which it doesn’t right now). Gee, how long do you think it would take for CA to either fix the problem or become depopulated by people moving to Texas?
In the drug context, the issues aren’t as clear as “pedophiles are vermin.” Different states would try different approaches. Out of 50 states, some would find approaches that work much better than others. Given the stakes involved, people would move to those states or the failing states would have to adapt.
That approach would, over time, work far better than the fedgov shredding our rights in a “War on Drugs” that they have no incentive to win and every reason - namely money and power - to keep dragging on forever...
I am pretty sure that a pedophile directly harms another person, as would a drug dealer selling to a non-adult, or who steals from another, or kills someone while operating machinery. They do not harm anyone else, by sleeping in the woods, but they do if they sleep on the street. Laws should be pretty simple to write and administer, unless you have laws against doing something that lowers your IQ, or lessens the GDP.