Are those policies proven to work? The war on drugs was proven to be ineffective, many successful businessmen are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and

Are those policies proven to work? The war on drugs was proven to be ineffective, many successful businessmen are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and mental asylums were brutal institutions that only propagated mental illness and did not cure it. All of these solutions, however, make people feel like “someone is doing something”, which is an emotional appeal even though those methods are empirically ineffective.