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Originally Posted by Air&Road
Okay bot, you win. Lets just repeal all the laws today. EVERY law inhibits someone. It's not fair to keep that poor guy from robbing a bank. He wants money. It's not fair to keep him from having the money he wants. Putting him in jail will not cure him of his desire for m
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If that's what you think I was arguing then either my writing style lacks precision or you extrapolate from what I wrote beyond reason.
I'll make it shorter: Laws that have no moral foundation are doomed to failure.
Drug laws have lost most of their moral foundation as our culture evolved.
To continue enforcing laws that are held in low moral regard is to undermine the rule of law. When we see that tax cheats don't get caught; wealthy people get sentenced to country club prisons; politicians retire to wealth and practically everybody breaks the sped limit, these are all symptoms of the same problem -- a government saddled with enforcing laws people hate.
This hatred drips from the skeleton of morality long dead and pours its putrefaction on all of society.