“What are you, a relativist? They’re wrong - and by no sane definition does Woody’s inhalation of smoke affect any body other than Woody’s”
That may be Woody’s opinion if he wants to justify drug use and if Woody sat on a mountain top alone he might be right but not otherwise.
“What are you, a relativist? They’re wrong”
Sure they’re wrong just as the legalize drugs crowd is wrong for thinking they can equate drug use and the harm it does with personal freedom.
By the way Capone went to jail for tax evasion not bootlegging.
if Woody sat on a mountain top alone he might be right but not otherwise.
If Woody sits in his living room alone when he inhales, how is he affecting any body other than his?
the legalize drugs crowd is wrong for thinking they can equate drug use and the harm it does with personal freedom.
Personal freedom encompasses using alcohol or any other mind-altering drug and inflicting on oneself the consequent harm. "Personal freedom" to do only what the government deems nonharmful is no freedom at all.
Even if the total profits don't drop - and basic economics says they will - moving money out of Al Capone's hands to Adolph Coors' was a clear win.
By the way Capone went to jail for tax evasion not bootlegging.
Irrelevant to my point: by ending Prohibition of the mind-altering drug alcohol, we moved money out of the hands of Capone's peer/competitor rumrunners into the hands of law-abiding businessmen.