XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: tvaerskaegg@aol.com   
      
   On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 01:40:38 +0100, "R. Mark Clayton"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Criminalising drugs that lead to compulsive use was not "immoral idiocy",   
      
   Much human bahaviour is 'compulsive' and criminalising personal   
   behaviour is moral idiocy. Prohibitionists are moral idiots, although   
   many of them are certainly decent enough as individuals, just unaware   
   of the moral turpitude into which they have sunk.   
      
   >quite the reverse, however legalising them might be a pragmatic way to   
   >reduce the crime associated with addicts funding their addiction, given that   
   >eradication is struggling.   
      
   Prohibition, apart from being morally indefensible, is a social   
   disaster that creats far more damage than it pretends to prevent.   
      
   >Compare Chinese attempts to kill all their rats...   
      
   If drug users are rats, according to the prohibitionist paradigm, then   
   preventing them from killing themselves would seem to be a pointless   
   excercise in misguided altruism. Might as well leave them to it.   
      
   But being smart was never a characteristic of prohibitionists, well,   
   they wouldn't be prohibitionists if they were smart, would they.   
      
   Svenne   
      
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