Re: Christians in a Post-Welfare State World

We have to stop the drugs, they cause global warming....

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2011/04/12/marijuana-causes-glo
bal-warming.html

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Peter T. Chattaway
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 8:06 AM
To: DADL (off topic)
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Christians in a Post-Welfare State World

On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, [email protected] wrote:

>> Um, well, make up your mind, then. Either we *can* do something about 
>> it ("having the support >is good") or we *can't* ("won't solve the 
>> problem either... the poor will always be there").
>
> False dichotomy.  My comments are not at odds.
>
> I think giving the support to the less fortunate is a good thing and 
> therefore not a waste of money.

Well, as I explained in one of my follow-up e-mails, the false dichotomy
here is the assumption that "doing something" necessarily entails government
action, and the more of it the better, which is what people usually mean by
"giving support".  If the reason for dissing private support is that it
won't "solve the problem", then public support should be similarly dissed
for not being able to "solve the problem".

> The war on drugs?  That is a waste of money.

Oh, it's *worse* than a waste of money; it creates more problems than it
solves, and on a wide societal level.

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