Message from @Nerthulas
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also, not all prohibitions are similar cases
>didn't try abolishing welfare
ok
let's "try it"
oh, we can't?
@Banjod How are property rights not enough? It's literally a net loss to keep addicts around.
no we can't
too many parasites
so it' not a solution
you desperately want it to work out that prohibition does EVERYTHING worse, that there will be MORE people on drugs under prohibition
its clownish
stop paying taxes
it's your duty
Again, read The Economics of Prohibition.
it' not enough because things are not static
have you read locke?
no, I don't think I will
have yo?
Why not? It's probably better researched than any argument I'll ever make. And discord isn't the place for debates, anyway.
I have no need to
@Nerthulas You've never read it, how can you say it's nonsensical?
I know alcohol use was reduced under prohibition
I'm not saying it is
I'm saying you are
Read the book.
if the claim that you're making is actually one of the theses of the book, then the book is nonsensical and not empirically based as well
In my country, there are what we call 'safe injection sites' being opened in many metropolitan zones, which are effectively government funded opium dens
but I doubt that is one of their claims
have you read the book?
me rn
we already tried not having a welfare system
you know what happened?
No
we got a welfare system
In the cities where these policies have been implemented most actively, the annual rate of overdose deaths has increased, not declined
Use has also increased
We can both read the book, and discuss the merits of its arguments.
okay, so you want me to read a book that you haven't read, which you claim says something that I now is empirically not true