They should adopt the same approach they use in Sweden to fight alcoholism: tax the hell out of it. You won a million by doing “insider trading” on the most recent dumb government decision? Congratulations, you owe the IRS half a mil.
If the goal was to reduce alcohol consumption then it was successful at that. I’m not saying it didn’t cause other issues, and it was decided that it wasn’t worth it, but it did not fail at the intended goal of reducing alcohol consumption.
Well what is the difference? A vice is a vice. Both are used to distracte us from the daily life of contant reminder that we are just a flesh bag being controlled by a mass of fat that will decay and die at some point. While we circle around a massive black hole. So why is this one vice so different that you think that prohibition would work?
Yes prohibition of alcohol worked so well in America, the 18th amendment, in the 1919 that 14 years later they repealed it, the 21st amendment.
They should adopt the same approach they use in Sweden to fight alcoholism: tax the hell out of it. You won a million by doing “insider trading” on the most recent dumb government decision? Congratulations, you owe the IRS half a mil.
Arguably prohibition did reduce alcohol consumption during that time period.
That does not mean that it “worked” in any practical sense, considering all else that was associated with it.
If the goal was to reduce alcohol consumption then it was successful at that. I’m not saying it didn’t cause other issues, and it was decided that it wasn’t worth it, but it did not fail at the intended goal of reducing alcohol consumption.
Not talking about alcohol try again
Well what is the difference? A vice is a vice. Both are used to distracte us from the daily life of contant reminder that we are just a flesh bag being controlled by a mass of fat that will decay and die at some point. While we circle around a massive black hole. So why is this one vice so different that you think that prohibition would work?
different things being vices doesn’t make them magically interchangeable
Sorry
So what makes it so different that you think that prohibition would work in this one instance?