Reply #163: Prohibitionists Still Foolishly Believe That Using The Criminal Justice System Can Solve Social Ills

[Yavin4]

No matter how many times they've been proven wrong. No matter how many people wind up in prison. No matter how many people die or become victims of violence. No matter how much prohibition corrupts our legal system. No matter how much prohibition tramples on our civil liberties. No matter what.

If there's an adult, consensual activity that they find personally immoral and objectionable and that they can find anecdotes of abuses, they immediately demand to use the justice system to remedy the problem. No matter that better remedies exist. No matter that focusing on counseling and better regulation of the activity are all better remedies, as history has shown. They still demand that the actvity be declared illegal which just introduces a dark, criminal element into the activity.