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First you need to get rid of criminals from the government

• mordocai 12y ago
  Heh heh. You are a dreamer good sir/madam. I doubt it is possible to get rid of the criminals in the government. It'd sure be nice though.
• nine_k 12y ago
  It does not take to be a criminal to support "war on drugs" and the like. It's enough to be a bureaucrat. According to Shirky Principle, "institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution". Bureaucracy is very much about being a self-sustained and preferable expanding body. For that, it needs that the problem it is intended to solve to persist. If needed, it will sustain and even re-create that problem. This is why we have so many forbidden and controlled things: so that those who check for compliance kept they jobs and could get a pay raise sometimes. And their jobs are not easy! Note that this is not "evil" per se, there's no malicious intent, and the whole "war on drugs", much like the Prohibition 80 years before it, is entirely driven by (outwardly) benign, even noble motives. Rather, this is a primitive form of life and natural selection. Life needs to self-sustain; its forms that fend off external threats better extend and persist. Any organization that had actually solved a problem it was built to solve has been disbanded, as something not needed any more. Any organization that offers solutions which perpetuate the problem is kept around to continue solving the problem. This is (partly) why higher forms of life have a death trigger built in. Eukaryotes have telomeres. Similarly, presidents only have limited time in office. Problem-solving bodies should have something similar.