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America's drug warriors are just like our HOV lane designers. Neither are trying to solve a problem. Instead, their goals are ideological.

A drug warrior is not trying to eliminate the drug problem, they imprisons drug users and dealers because they are morally wrong and imprisoning them is morally correct.

An HOV lane designer creates HOV lanes not because it will reduce traffic congestion, but because it is morally correct.

Problems are hard enough to solve when you are trying to solve them, and virtually impossible when that isn't even your intent.

There is no intention of ever ending the War on Drugs. Heck, it is now a major way of harassing other countries and sticking our nose in the their business, and the DEA is now involved in manipulating foreign policy.

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Good analogy. Good post!

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"An HOV lane designer creates HOV lanes not because it will reduce traffic congestion, but because it is morally correct."

Don't get me started on the stupidity of HOV lanes. For people who want to save the earth, it's absurd to have 2 lanes of traffic bumper ot bumper pumping out exhaust when there is a perfectly good lane that is hardly being used. In seattle there were people who praised a recent construction project that basically caused traffic paralysis in the city because it "forced people to rethink" using cars to get to work.