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Singapore indicates strict prohibition and punishing laws can and do work. The problem wasn’t that prohibition didn’t work, it was the lack of enforcement. I d

by graphe 3y ago

Singapore indicates strict prohibition and punishing laws can and do work. The problem wasn’t that prohibition didn’t work, it was the lack of enforcement. I don’t have any philosophy towards the idea of drugs. I don’t think the world would be worst off all fentanyl sellers were all dead. I don’t see a point to say we should treat heroin like weed and cocaine like Xanax.

pdonis 3y ago
> Singapore indicates strict prohibition and punishing laws can and do work. For a city-state with a reasonably homogeneous population, perhaps. But that's very different from a large country. > The problem wasn’t that prohibition didn’t work, it was the lack of enforcement. That's because the amount of enforcement it would have taken to actually prohibit all use of liquor would have been (a) way, way too costly, and (b) inconsistent with having a free country. At least our country realized that for liquor and repeated Prohibition. > I don’t have any philosophy towards the idea of drugs. It sure seems like you do from your statements that immediately follow this one.