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Legalize All Non-lethal Adult Pleasures. Just License the Buyer. What is the Public's Opinion?
1) Capture for the legal economy several $trillions going to criminals and terrorists.
2) Empty the prisons of defendants in the War on This and the War on That.
3) Everyone gets an adult pleasure license at the age of majority. As people abuse the pleasures and lose control, points accumulate. After some number, the license gets revoked. This allows people to enjoy their pleasures in peace, and stops the people who cannot handle them safely. So, the wife says, "You drink too much." A point. Doc says, "Evidence of liver damage from alcohol." Second point. Boss says, "Go home, you're drunk." Third and last point. You lose the drinking license.
4) Anyone supplying an unlicensed buyer gets draconian penalties, including the death penalty if the drunkard kills someone in a drunk driving crash.
5) By law, the cost of the license would be restricted to the cost of drawing up the license. It could never be a source of revenue for the government.
2 Answers
- Eric HLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's called prohibition - it's been tried and didn't work.
The problem with your idea is that alcoholics will continue to drink when they lose their pleasure licence and the mob will move in on that.
Then you're right back where you started.
- Freedle SLv 61 decade ago
1) You have way too much time on your hands
2) I have no problem with legalizing victimless crimes.
3) If someone is maintaining a life whether in their private time they indulge in drugs, sex, chocolate chip cookies, or whatever, I don't care. I just think they should be responsible for their actions otherwise. Whether they are responsible to their jobs, families or whatever.
4) I'd much rather see the money used to catch, deter and house criminals of victimless crimes be put to better use. Use that money for job training, 12 step programs whatever.
5) I think your license idea is hooey. If you start getting the addicts outlawed from their vice you are creating another atmosphere of prohibition. It didn't work then and it won't now. Give them the tools (12 step programs etc.) to overcome the crippling affects.
6) Since when did the government ever create anything that wasn't a source of revenue? You're just being naive now.
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