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Decided to feed the rage centres of my brain and read the most replied to comments in the article. Apparently every joint smoked causes four pregnancies. By th

Decided to feed the rage centres of my brain and read the most replied to comments in the article. Apparently every joint smoked causes four pregnancies. By this math, everyone please, give me a pat on the back, I've repopulated a small city. I suppose my lowered testosterone and enhanced aggression have made me super-virile, and I'm causing parthenogenesis all over without trying. Thing is, I don't know how you can even begin to argue against that level of stupid. Scientific fact and rational discourse don't work. You may as well try to convince a lamp post of the validity of deontological ethics.

rprospero 12y ago
That does make for some interesting math. For instance, there's about four million children born each year, so that gives us an upper bound of about a million joints consumed. The penal system seems to regard about thirty grams as the unit of scale, so the total mass would be 30 Mg. According to their own website, the DEA seems to seize about an average of 400 Mg of marijuana a year. So we now have a lower bound on production (400 Mg) and an upper bound on consumption (30 Mg). Clearly, production has greatly exceeded demand, in violation of basic micro-economics. Thus, the statement there are four children born for every joint smoked is one of the greatest refutations of capitalism you can imagine. Everyone who believes it should be issued a free Che Guevara t-shirt to show their disdain for free market enterprise. Similarly, anyone who supports the war on drugs should preferentially hire jobs candidates wearing Che Guevara t-shirts in order to avoid hiring those pot heads.
mod 12y ago
I have to actively avoid comment sections on most of the internet. HN is my safe-haven, although I still try to avoid politic-centric discussions here. It's appalling the level of discourse of the average person, even in my normal friend/family circles (my facebook feeds).

rprospero 12y ago

That does make for some interesting math. For instance, there's about four million children born each year, so that gives us an upper bound of about a million joints consumed. The penal system seems to regard about thirty grams as the unit of scale, so the total mass would be 30 Mg. According to their own website, the DEA seems to seize about an average of 400 Mg of marijuana a year. So we now have a lower bound on production (400 Mg) and an upper bound on consumption (30 Mg). Clearly, production has greatly exceeded demand, in violation of basic micro-economics. Thus, the statement there are four children born for every joint smoked is one of the greatest refutations of capitalism you can imagine. Everyone who believes it should be issued a free Che Guevara t-shirt to show their disdain for free market enterprise. Similarly, anyone who supports the war on drugs should preferentially hire jobs candidates wearing Che Guevara t-shirts in order to avoid hiring those pot heads.

mod 12y ago

I have to actively avoid comment sections on most of the internet. HN is my safe-haven, although I still try to avoid politic-centric discussions here. It's appalling the level of discourse of the average person, even in my normal friend/family circles (my facebook feeds).