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Temperance worked: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/5/18518005/prohibition-alcohol-public-health-crime-benefits https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6

Temperance worked: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/5/18518005/prohibition-alcohol-public-health-crime-benefits https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/5/18518005/prohibit.... We just chose degeneracy instead of a better society and lower healthcare costs.

int_19h 1y ago
Something that couldn't be sustained cannot be said to have worked. The numbers don't matter if the policy doesn't have genuinely broad and non-performative public approval, and Prohibition clearly didn't, given how many people skirted those laws.
- rayiner 1y ago
  That’s like saying “dieting doesn’t work.” It does work, as GLP-1 drugs have proven. People just lacked the willpower to do the healthy thing.
  - int_19h 1y ago
    If people lack the willpower to sustain it, then it's not a working solution in a democracy, as simple as that.
stickfigure 1y ago
Yeah yeah and Mussolini made the trains run on time. We've heard that stuff before.
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