You are going to extremes. How do you equate illegal drug use/drug addiction and a bike helmet law?
I've been known to do that. 8~).
How do you equate illegal drug use/drug addiction and a bike helmet law?
I was tying in your remark about drugs making their way to children through adults. Not everything every adult is the best, for themselves or their children. I'm sure you're a pretty decent guy and what you want is generally good. I doubt I live my life much different from what you advocate, I certainly warn my children often about the problems of drugs.
Where I diverge is that I don't want to make so many things against the law. I think that works at cross purposes to the desired outcome and many people chafe at the perceived yoke you offer. Admittedly many don't, but those that do get all bent out of shape at someone telling them what to do. They get all confused about the law, in general, and begin deciding which laws they want to obey and which they don't. People start having serious problems trying to explain why booze is legal and pot isn't. I've yet to see a defensible answer to booze vs pot -- one I'd risk my reputation with my kids over. I just think there are lots and lots of unintended consequences with these morality laws.
I have a pretty good idea who I am and know I'm not going to be doing a bunch of harmful stuff to myself or my family regardless of the current laws. I also believe I'm not so special and that the vast majority won't get caught in a vicious life. They'll know better and act accordingly. As far as kids go, they'll learn and pretty much do what's right, after some experimentation just as they always have. Will some stumble? I'd be surprised if they didn't, but who's got the foolproof solution?