Look, every single one of your arguments has collapsed under its own weight. "a society in which people do things out of their free will. That would not work... as long as [the] majority of people still have common sense." Now you have divulged your true intention. You are one typical leftist dreaming of a nanny state where the Big Brother dictates every decision, every action of yours, who is more comfortable in his skin being a slave of someone else, and consider that more commonsensical than being a man of his own free will. You should definitely feel much more at home in Nazi Germany or Soviet Union, or in Mao's Communist China.
Now, what is the point mentioning Trump? Is that supposed to be an argument? How? Do you consider him to be omnipotent or omniscient? Is his opinion more persuasive than my own or your own? Again, this exposes your leftist's habit of lack of capacity for independent and critical thinking.
There is no drug problem any more than any problem stemming from any other substance like alcohol, other than that caused by the Drug War itself. You could make the exact same argument for banning alcohol. Why dare you not raise that issue?
Oh, I forgot about the mandy, more than fifty, shades of absurdity of your statement "there is a news piece today, saying the opioid painkiller is not more effective than conventional pain killer. The logic should be simple - due to its addictive nature, even if they are more effective, the damage outweighs the benefits - then make all of them illegal!" First of all, the over sweeping nature of the claim is almost immediately and always wrong. The very fact you believe in the news headline completely reveals either your lack of critical thinking or naivety. Second, have you read the actual scientific report? Do you know how the study is conducted, how big a sample, what specific painkillers are used, what specific diseases/pains at what stage are under study, what is the profile of the patients population under study, what is the criterion for assessing effectiveness? Most importantly, "no more effective" is a pretty weak statement and means just that, no better. How does one ever leap to the conclusion that something needs to be banned? If you ever have any skill of dealing with probabilistic problems you could easily come up with absurd counterexamples to your assertion. I will just leave it as a homework exercise for you to figure one out.
You are dreaming of a society in which people do things out of their free will. That would not work, and you are not going to get there, as long as majority of people still have common sense. The drug problem is already very serious, even in your big-shot republican's eyes (Pres. Trump), and it would get worse.
nightrider 发表评论于
@MoatCity:
If you know anything about Chinese history, particularly the Opium War, with more than skin deep superficiality fed by the Chinese authority, you would know opium is but one excuse and scapegoating of the government for hundred years of the corruption, incompetence, oppression of the people prior to the war.
A country and a people do not lose the competitive edge because of what people voluntarily take into their body. On the very contrary, competitive edge and creativity STEM from individuals having the freedom to decide for themselves how to live their own lives so long as he does not infringe upon others' property rights without someone else coercing them into any action, regardless the motivation or morality judgement of that someone else. Hitler never considered he had done anything morally unrighteous for the German people when he imposed his own will on the German people. If anything, the (Chinese) Opium War is a case in point how a nation of oppressed people with no free will of their own would perish.
nightrider 发表评论于
"美国正经历一场有史以来的最严重的鸦片灾难,美国必须打一场鸦片战争。"
We are already in a Drug War. It is exactly this war itself is draining taxpayers' money and the wealth of the nation in the service of nothing but the moral crusade of some special interest groups. It is a replay of the Prohibition (of alcohol). Drug use is not a problem. It is the right of an individual and no one else to decide what he put inside of his own body.
You said "政策的制定,会直接影响到纳税人的钱放到哪里去了。" I can not agree more. If you are really concerned with your tax money, you should try to stop the politician from waging this socially destructive, wasteful and moreover losing war. If you read up on the history of the Prohibition, you will conclude that this war will lose eventually precisely like the Prohibition. The sad thing is, it won't end before it has done enough damage.
MoatCity 发表评论于
nightrider:
If you know anything about Chinese history after opium war, you know that is how a Country goes to the drain, if the drugs are legalized.
More and more people are getting stoned after the pot legalization, and that is also how a country loses competitive edge.
nightrider 发表评论于
@MoatCity:
You are one of those dumbass leftists who think the panacea to all problem is prohibition. You can present more detrimental statistics for alcohol than drugs. Maybe you should reinstitute and replay Prohibition-era policies first. The leftists never learn. The only solution is to legalize drugs.
They talk, talk constantly about the problem, without knowing the true answer in solving the problem is right under their nose: just ban the damn drugs - there is a news piece today, saying the opioid painkiller is not more effective than conventional pain killer. The logic should be simple - due to its addictive nature, even if they are more effective, the damage outweighs the benefits - then make all of them illegal!
Like guns, they don't look at the root of the problem, beating around the bushes, trying to have non-stop talking topics.
Honestly, I have found this country, and people in this country to be very dumb and funny, they make simple problems more complicated, and they see trees not the forest, they shake their heads in sand and pretending to be smart, with eyes blindfolded trying to see solutions.
As for the politicians in this country, they are all corrupted by special interest money. Really don't want to solve problems for this country. You split all the top CCP leaders' brains in half, they would be still smarter than the elected officials.
Opioid addition, gun violence, healthcare reform ---- they will talk about those issues in the next 30 to 50 years. What a joke!