Truth be told after a couple thousand years of trying to ban things like premarital sex, cheating, and getting high. You would think that someone would have come up with a solution by now. Fines are a failure, jail is a failure, stoning to death is a failure, you would think that people would get a clue.
Doing a little research Portugal's younger population has been on the decline since the early 1900's as the emigrate and return later in life. A sizable piece of their financial issues come from, the population ratio of old to young, and the entitlement culture.
By the way it is not a "debt problem" it is a "overspending" problem, which increasing the cost of borrowing money as the risk of default increases.
"comparing incidents of something before and after it was decriminalized is an inherently flawed methodology"
It would be a flawed methodology if the drug use numbers just dropped right after decriminalization. They didn't. We have ten years of data from after Portugal decriminalized drugs. With steadily decreasing drug use over time.
"As for your historical examples... wait. There are no examples. You're just making tired old Libertarian ideological points and trying to legitimize them by tacking the word "historically" on there."
Nice ad hominem attack by the way, almost fell for it ... Well not really.
You should have explained how sex, communications, or drug use have been controlled in the past. Oh wait, if historically we had found a way we would be using it today.
He is not kidding. If you look at Portugal where drugs are decriminalized, you see drug use didn't go up, it actually fell. If drugs are legal or illegal roughly the same percentage of people use.
About the rest of your rant.
-Lets arrest people, that will make them stop.
-Arresting people didn't work.
-Lets make the jail sentences longer.
-Damn that didn't work.
-Lets kill them, that will make it stop.
-Hell, killing them didn't work.
Historically attempting to legislate human nature never works, and escalating has an effect opposite to the desired outcome.
Since your next argument is going to be "its not human nature to do drugs" Ask a psychologist about self medication and addictive personalities.
PS- I am sorry about which ever family member(s) of yours had a drinking problem.
Actually, I ran across a term today that I had totally forgotten, and yet it sums up DC politicians and the MPAA leadership perfectly:
PSYCHOPATHY.
Glibness/superficial charm
Grandiose sense of self-worth
Pathological lying
Cunning/manipulative
Lack of remorse or guilt
Emotionally shallow
Callous/lack of empathy
Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
Parasitic lifestyle
Impulsiveness
Irresponsibility
Revocation of conditional release
Criminal versatility.
I can't help but think that sums up pretty much every politician in DC and the higher ups in the MPAA. Psychopaths. It's pretty amusing to realize that.
No it didn't, no movie in Hollywood makes money. I often wonder why the IRS hasn't gone after them. I mean they must be doing something illegal to maintain their extravagant lifestyles with every movie running at a loss. Maybe they are laundering money ...
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So explain to us how to do it right.
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By the way it is not a "debt problem" it is a "overspending" problem, which increasing the cost of borrowing money as the risk of default increases.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/07/05/ten-years-after-decriminalization-drug-abuse-down- by-half-in-portugal/
"comparing incidents of something before and after it was decriminalized is an inherently flawed methodology"
It would be a flawed methodology if the drug use numbers just dropped right after decriminalization. They didn't. We have ten years of data from after Portugal decriminalized drugs. With steadily decreasing drug use over time.
"As for your historical examples... wait. There are no examples. You're just making tired old Libertarian ideological points and trying to legitimize them by tacking the word "historically" on there."
Nice ad hominem attack by the way, almost fell for it ... Well not really.
You should have explained how sex, communications, or drug use have been controlled in the past. Oh wait, if historically we had found a way we would be using it today.
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Re: Re: Yer kidding right?
About the rest of your rant.
-Lets arrest people, that will make them stop.
-Arresting people didn't work.
-Lets make the jail sentences longer.
-Damn that didn't work.
-Lets kill them, that will make it stop.
-Hell, killing them didn't work.
Historically attempting to legislate human nature never works, and escalating has an effect opposite to the desired outcome.
Since your next argument is going to be "its not human nature to do drugs" Ask a psychologist about self medication and addictive personalities.
PS- I am sorry about which ever family member(s) of yours had a drinking problem.
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Or MSNBC, CNN, or FOX news.
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Actually, I ran across a term today that I had totally forgotten, and yet it sums up DC politicians and the MPAA leadership perfectly:
PSYCHOPATHY.
Glibness/superficial charm
Grandiose sense of self-worth
Pathological lying
Cunning/manipulative
Lack of remorse or guilt
Emotionally shallow
Callous/lack of empathy
Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
Parasitic lifestyle
Impulsiveness
Irresponsibility
Revocation of conditional release
Criminal versatility.
From Wikipedia, in case you are wondering
I can't help but think that sums up pretty much every politician in DC and the higher ups in the MPAA. Psychopaths. It's pretty amusing to realize that.
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Isn't that just wonderful? Lets just throw more gasoline on the fire ...
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