Comments on: Imagine http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/08/08/imagine/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:49:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Carnival Of Liberty LVIII http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/08/08/imagine/#comment-2228 Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Carnival Of Liberty LVIII Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:47:03 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/08/08/imagine/#comment-2228 [...] First up, Brad Warbiany contributes a post from The Liberty Papers wonders what the world would be like if we enforced the speed limit the same way we enforce drug laws: When you elevate a common crime to eeevvviiilll status, particularly a crime that most people don’t feel is necessarily “wrong”, you run into a problem. In order to continue to enforce the crime and stop the behavior, you must continually increase penalties. The only way to get people who don’t feel like what their behavior is wrong is to make the penalties so high, and the detection so severe, that nobody dares get caught engaging in that behavior. [...] [...] First up, Brad Warbiany contributes a post from The Liberty Papers wonders what the world would be like if we enforced the speed limit the same way we enforce drug laws: When you elevate a common crime to eeevvviiilll status, particularly a crime that most people don’t feel is necessarily “wrong”, you run into a problem. In order to continue to enforce the crime and stop the behavior, you must continually increase penalties. The only way to get people who don’t feel like what their behavior is wrong is to make the penalties so high, and the detection so severe, that nobody dares get caught engaging in that behavior. [...]

]]> By: Eric http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/08/08/imagine/#comment-2143 Eric Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:13:07 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/08/08/imagine/#comment-2143 Today's idiocy is a case in point. Today’s idiocy is a case in point.

]]> By: Brad Warbiany http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/08/08/imagine/#comment-2129 Brad Warbiany Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:34:30 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/08/08/imagine/#comment-2129 John, I think we may finally start seeing an end to it. As I've pointed out before, the government now has the "War on Terror", they no longer need a "War on Drugs" to justify their control. John,

I think we may finally start seeing an end to it. As I’ve pointed out before, the government now has the “War on Terror”, they no longer need a “War on Drugs” to justify their control.

]]> By: John Newman http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/08/08/imagine/#comment-2128 John Newman Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:29:26 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/08/08/imagine/#comment-2128 I think you just made a fine case for why we need a different and better government. Lest we forget, drugs were legal in this country until the 1900s. When prohibition ended, the G-Men had to have a job so the USG invented this hobgoblin. I think you just made a fine case for why we need a different and better government. Lest we forget, drugs were legal in this country until the 1900s. When prohibition ended, the G-Men had to have a job so the USG invented this hobgoblin.

]]> By: Nick http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/08/08/imagine/#comment-2122 Nick Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:12:45 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/08/08/imagine/#comment-2122 I view fines the same way I view sin taxes: ridiculous. Which doesn't take away from the logic of your post. Well said. I view fines the same way I view sin taxes: ridiculous.

Which doesn’t take away from the logic of your post.

Well said.

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