Big difference

Towns can be voluntary and mutual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dry_communities_by_U.S._state

here you can read about it

no, they can't

they really can't

'dry town' doesn't mean what you think it means

Any contractual obligation made of its members are voluntary in-term.

it doesn't mean a town where there isn't any alcohol

listen

it doesn't mean what you think it means

it does not mean a town where there isn't any alcohol

it means a town with a prohibition on the books of the municipal code against alcohol

They don't permit the sale of alcohol, yes.

Dosen't matter.

Such an arrangement can be voluntary and contractual.

Why couldn't it be?

that is a law, formed by a democratically elected city or town council, backed by state force

You enter sombody's tenant property and agree to a set of terms so long as you're there.

'could be, couldn't be'

talking about what is

not what could be

But there are towns are ran mutually.

they ***are not*** voluntary

You can't say otherwise.

they aren't called dry towns, dude

a dry town is one with laws against alcohol

They can be dry towns

Okay

So,

maybe you don't know becuase you're european

The initial premise was "prohibition is ineffective."

In Germany, from 1933 to 1939, prohibition on the consumption and sale of tobacco saw the majority of the country's tobacco advertisers, distributors and manufacturers close down, daily consumption of tobacco among the adult population reduce by 25% and among minors almost entirely.

In Canada, from 1920 to 1925, prohibition on the consumption and sale of alcohol saw three quarters of all alcohol breweries close down and decreases by 66% each in cross-border alcohol smuggling, public intoxication and related criminal offences.

To the present day, hundreds of municipal governments maintain prohibitions on the use, manufacture and sale of alcohol within their boundaries and have reduced the consumption of it by 100%.

how the term is used

Then the goal post was shifted to "it could be voluntary."

Which is very irrelevant

if its mutual, it is by definition not a dry town

Okay fine

okay

That's extremely pedantic

yes, you were being extremely pedantic