“’So.... let anyone access whatever they want, regardless of situation?’
It would be like living in a free country.”
Beautiful answer. LOL. Part of the experience of freedom is to only answer to yourself for your choices, where they don’t directly hurt another anyway.
It does have to do with what kind of society we want. The choice isn’t about living with even more drug addicts, because I believe those who do drugs will do them regardless, and some are even attracted to the forbidden.
The choice is about freedom and personal responsibility, and neither of those things a government can regulate.
As the Soviet Union proved so well the more you try to control your citizens the more they fall into sloth, crime, drunkenness, drugs and apathy.
Now, can anyone think of a more recent example of a country where society is trending downwards while laws and regulations are proliferating to ridiculous nannystate levels?
“I believe those who do drugs will do them regardless, and some are even attracted to the forbidden.”
Great point. One of the reasons teenagers are so vulnerable to drugs is because of their rebellious tendencies, which are perfectly natural. By making drugs tabboo, we’ve created a drug counterculture which appeals to those rebellious instincts. Aren’t we kind of laying a snare that way?