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To: Hemlock
If it weren't for the War on Drugs, this kid wouldn't even have a market.

Laws do not create a market, only supply and demand do. The moral-liberal-run industries (which the L.P. lauds) help to fuel the demand. You want to end the WOD (assuming there is even one) then ban pornography and abortion and throw the pornographers and abortionists in jail, and we can win the WOD overnight.


** The Government **

The government has a responsibility to enforce the laws. But it does much more than that. It sets a moral standard, based on the knowledge that some practices have evil consequences.

Doctors are aware how harmful sodomy is. The intestines were not designed for this purpose, and expensive operations have to be done to repair the damaged muscles and intestinal tissue. Diseases, also, are introduced through sodomy.

Practices which are harmful to the practitioners, as well as society, should not be encouraged. Such practices should be frowned upon, and not allowed. It would be cruel to allow people and society to suffer. We have no problem decrying the harmfulness of tobacco. But not sodomy, and other sexual perversions.

Why is this so?

The word "liberal" used to be religious term, denoting generosity of giving. Now, it's a secular term of licentiousness.

The vast majority of people are moral and decent. But in all the areas of power in this country, in the media, the advertisers, the entertainment industry, the government, the universities and schools, there are powerful groups of liberals who think if only people would fall into a "let live" attitude in morals, everything would be fine.

The whole liberal power-structure is geared to lowering morality, and they see it as a "crusade" to bring "freedom."

The bottomline, though, is greed. That is the driving-force behind their campaign against morality. Immorality generates money, and they're right behind, scooping it up.

Source: The Wisdom of the Ages

457 posted on 12/31/2001 12:06:46 AM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad
The Wisdom of the Ages = true dementia.
463 posted on 12/31/2001 12:13:34 AM PST by tpaine
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To: Cultural Jihad
Addicts don't shoot up for the rush, they're making a political statement against prohibition. /sarcasm
464 posted on 12/31/2001 12:13:46 AM PST by Roscoe
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To: Cultural Jihad
Laws do not create a market, only supply and demand do.

This only works in Econ 101, the only place where supply and demand curves hold fast or are taken seriously. Alcohol prohibition turned a tiny market for vodka and whiskey into an enormous market finally producing rotgut, toward the end. And the reason is painfully obvious: it's more addictive, and it's more profitable and less dangerous for the smuggler and dealer--more concentration means more ease of concealment and transportation, and a more predicable and lucrative set of addicted customers.

In the real world, laws, if they matter, distort the markets the original suppy&demand curves were plotted against. If they didn't matter, why would we have passed them in the first place?

546 posted on 12/31/2001 11:41:59 AM PST by donh
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To: Cultural Jihad
ME: If it weren't for the War on Drugs, this kid wouldn't even have a market.

YOU: Laws do not create a market, only supply and demand do. The moral-liberal-run industries (which the L.P. lauds) help to fuel the demand. You want to end the WOD (assuming there is even one) then ban pornography and abortion and throw the pornographers and abortionists in jail, and we can win the WOD overnight.

ME: I never claimed that laws create markets, only that they distort them. I guarantee you that our hypothetical kid would not be able to sell drugs on the street corner if they weren't illegal. There wouldn't be any profit in it for him. While it is true that many drugs are grown on big plantations and produced in modern labs which are fairly efficient, the transportation and distribution costs, among others, are always higher in a black market. In a legitimate market, you wouldn't have teenagers selling drugs on street corners, just as you don't have teenagers selling moonshine on street corners.
562 posted on 12/31/2001 12:36:48 PM PST by Hemlock
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