Comments on: What Would It Take? http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/04/what-would-it-take/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Fri, 17 May 2013 18:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ryan http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/04/what-would-it-take/#comment-5486 Ryan Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:16:22 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/04/what-would-it-take/#comment-5486 The biggest problem when I debate someone is that they think if we let drugs beomce legal, the world will go to shambles because everyone is going to start getting high every night and wasting away. They see drugs as this huge evil and are so convinced that drugs are the worst thing ever to come into existence that they cannot see the errosion of our civil rights and the complete failure that is the war on drugs. Honestly, for some people I know, I’m not sure the SWAT-team based death would shift their stance, simply because to them drugs are that evil. It’s scary really.

]]> By: Adam Selene http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/04/what-would-it-take/#comment-5482 Adam Selene Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:18:42 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/04/what-would-it-take/#comment-5482 Except that we clearly have a whole new generation of moralists driving Drug Prohibition.

]]> By: tarran http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/04/what-would-it-take/#comment-5478 tarran Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:59:08 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/04/what-would-it-take/#comment-5478 I don’t believe the true believers did change their minds.

Prohibition required a coalition of industrialists and moralists to pass. The industrialists were concerned about drunkenness on the job. They saw alcohol consumption as costing them economically in the form of lowered productivity, and decreased quality of product.

During the Roaring 20′s, the industrialists began to see prohibition as being even worse for business. So they ended their support for it.

The moralists have always been opposed. Of course, they have largely died out (they didn’t do a good job of recruiting younger members), so it looks like they gave up, when in fact old age caught up with most of them.

]]> By: Adam Selene http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/04/what-would-it-take/#comment-5462 Adam Selene Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:55:19 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/04/what-would-it-take/#comment-5462 You don’t think that “true believers”, the ones who think drugs are bad, therefore we must fight them, can be convinced by anything else? The true believers got overturned on Prohibition, how did that happen?

]]> By: Kevin http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/04/what-would-it-take/#comment-5451 Kevin Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:55:03 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/04/what-would-it-take/#comment-5451 I’ll take your question, although I oppose the War on (some) Drugs.

It will probably take someone they love very much getting killed by a SWAT Team to change their mind.

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