Re: How Views Cause the Situation to Change (was Re: Cheney's...)

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On Sunday May 11, 2003 05:05, Daniel Cassidy wrote:
> On Sunday 11 May 2003 7:27 pm, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> >   With vigilance against liberalization and socialization of the
> > government, especially through the constant fight against big
> > government, the U.S. will remain the place where those seeking a
> > better life will continue to come.
>
> Umm, did you really mean 'liberalization' here?
>
> I mean, socialization I can understand and even agree with your point;
> Government provides more services, government has more direct control,
> government is more powerful.
>
> Liberalization, however often has the opposite effect because there's
> less to police. If you legalize marijuana, for example, firstly you
> don't need extra police officers to arrest users and dealers. Secondly,
> because it can be produced and sold openly, the price goes down and it's
> no longer a viable source of income for terrorist and criminal
> organisations and the like, and so you have less such groups to deal
> with.

So if we legalized murder, there would be no more murder, right?  Because 
hit-men would no longer be able to charge so much?  And our streets would 
be safer since we wouldn't spend so many resources tracking down, 
arresting, and trying murderers?

- -- 
Neil Stevens - [email protected]
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the
sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him
for the same act as the destroyer of liberty." -- Abraham Lincoln
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