To: Restorer
Laws that attempt to legislate "morality" like banning liquor, cigarettes, prostitution etc. most certainly will always fail. It has be demonstrated over the years....note the 18th amendment.....these kinds of laws cannot be effectively enforced. Look at the drug laws....they really work don't they? The only way to effectively enforce "morality" laws is to somehow make the behavior socially unacceptabile or make the punishment for getting caught so horrible that nobody would consider doing the activity....like summary, on the spot execution....and that brings up an issue that nobody in the free world wants to comtemplate.
To: B.O. Plenty
Please point out
any activity that has been eliminated by passing a law against it. Making something illegal at best reduces the activity. Yet nobody uses this argument to claim that murder should be decriminalized.
There are perfectly good arguments against the criminalizing of "victimless" activities. The difficulty of enforcement is not one of them.
23 posted on
01/07/2003 11:04:08 AM PST by
Restorer
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