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Originally Posted by Vexx
The War on Drugs shows how simply making something popular but toxic illegitimate is a total failure (much like Prohibition was). It simply enriches the criminal class and provides a mechanism of unwarranted power to authoritarians.
You have to examine the motivations and deal with problems at the motivational sources. Why do people do drugs? Why do they smoke crappy quality cigarettes? Why do they stoke up on too much alcohol? Why do they eat ship shavings shaped into fast food?
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Sorry, but that seems like a lame excuse not to try at all. The apathy I hear in that statement is quite appalling. "There's nothing we can do about it so why try" is not something I endorse. In order for the world to have any hope of changing for the better (and here's where I get cheesy) we all have to work to gether and not allow negative attitudes like this.