09-07-2011, 07:59 AM
(09-07-2011, 05:58 AM)MagitekElite Wrote:(09-07-2011, 05:26 AM)Rosair Wrote:(09-07-2011, 04:17 AM)MagitekElite Wrote: I don't think legalizing drugs or prostitution will help any. Legalizing things like drugs is a bad idea, I think, because it be easier to sell to children, or for children to a hold of it. We'd have more much deaths (over-doses, crashes done to being high etc).thats a fallacy. The same points were rung up during prohibition but the reality is that simply being a responsible person is the difference here.With legalization comes moderation which is why these things arent legal. Theres no way to secure appropriate means to building a new system that these things would need. Theyd be tireless messing with regulation and of course plenty of money. right or wrong these things dont affect Politics .Money though, specially with the reality of Republican talking points, wouldnt be something you could talk of.
Stating its a fallacy doesn't make it so. Oh you think being responsible yourself will stop others from abusing it? You could be responsible about it, but others won't. Just look at what's moderated right now. Doesn't seem to work now, what in the world makes you think it will work legalized? Moderation is applied to alcohol, but look at all the death and problems that follows that. Moderation is applied to guns and gun safety, but look what good that does. Moderation is applied to cigarettes, but look at all the good that does. Moderation is done to nearly everything we have legal now and it still causes us lots of problems.
Moderation alone will not keep these things from harming others, or causing problems with the country in whole. Maybe legalizing marijuana could help that situation a bit, but it wouldn't be long until that caused a problem just as bad if not worse, than the previous.
If it was legalized, drug sellers would be pushing all their trade into America, making it even easier to grab a hold of drugs at a younger age. If it happens now on a big scale, what do you think would happen if it was legalized? It would be worse.
It is a fallacy cause the effect of being legal or being illegal is 0.what stops murder from happening?(nothing) the law doesnt prevent anything, it takes action against it. Drugs and prostitution are already regulated and legal( in different forms but still) Prescription pills are legal and are abused, People are more likely to die from legal substances like Bleach simply cause that is the nature of stupid human foolishness.theres nothing consistent stopping people from being stupid. and there is no evidence that itd be worse legalized then criminalized, In fact history holds all the talking points pro-drug legalization will bring up. there is no such historical reference for the opposite effect.
and again such things should always be subject to a standard of intelligence.
just because people are stupid doesnt mean we should hold it from them.
in this case the question is basically irrelevant. All people who venture to gain money will do so anyway they can criminal or not.same thing applied here.
Just as a note Unless you can justify a moral or practical reason for criminalization theres lil going for this issue. It truly doesnt matter cause it will fix nothing just shift there territories.the reason im on the legalization side is because I find no reason morally to shift Marijuana to an organization we can atleast regulate via the FDA. as opposed to the Gangs in mexico.
as for prostitution :again better to be regulated, and perhaps unions and the like will be needed there.
unless you like the criminalized version of prostitution Which RUINs girls lives in america. they get no Help whatso ever and are nearly punished for being used.
but to explain the reason why is cause our government Wont do those things regardless of how we feel.Money and regulations and politics get in the way.