Baseless hysteria - we don't encounter alcohol addicts anywhere near that often.
“Baseless hysteria.”
No, it isn’t.
Is what has happened to our teenagers through promiscuity (encouraged by your buddies the 1960’s radicals) with higher STDs, higher pregnancy, higher abortion, higher suicide, baseless hysteria? No. It’s fact.
Is higher drug addiction in any area that enables recreational drug usage baseless hysteria? No. It’s fact.
Is the destruction to individual lives and to the lives of families that results when someone becomes addicted to drugs baseless hysteria? No. It’s fact.
What does any of that have to do with the prevalence of drug addicts slouched against the walls?
And how does drug addiction "enable" recreational drug usage?
How could you so completely switch my premise and conclusion?
I parsed your sentence in a manner other than you intended - that is, I parsed it as "higher drug addiction in any area" being the subject, "enables" the verb, and "recreational drug usage" as the object. Thanks for the clarification.
Legalizing drugs increases the prevalence of drugs.
Legalizing drugs culturally condones recreational drug usage.
Dubious - many legal acts are not culturally condoned, for example, insulting your wife.
The increased prevalence and cultural condoning of recreational drug usage increases recreational drug usage in a society.
Perhaps - but for most drugs, not by much, since the disincentives inherent in the drugs themselves outweigh the removed disincentives of possible arrest.
Increased recreational drug usage in a society increases the percentage of citizens who become addicted to drugs.
Utterly unclear, since legalization also lessens incentives to use drugs in ways that encourage addiction, for example, getting as high as possible during any given episode of use.
Your replies, your attempt to counter-argue, have just become silly.
“Baseless hysteria”
Really? My predictions of what will happen are based upon historical fact, which you try to refute by saying, “Well, no, maybe...”
Let’s talk about your baseless optimism that legalizing drugs will simply make everyone’s life better, richer, freer, more prosperous. “Hoping” (like a supporter of Obammie the Commie) that everything will be better in the future if we just legalize a poison is...
Baseless optimism.
“Dubious - many legal acts are not culturally condoned, for example, insulting your wife.”
You’re kidding, right? You don’t really intend for that to pass as some sort of logical rebuttal, do you?
Do you not see how weak your argument on that point is?
Honor killings are legal in Islasmofascist states. They occur fairly frequently, considering how horrible they are. And the last I checked, insulting spouses was the backbone of prime time TV.
How can you be so illogical?
The increased prevalence and cultural condoning of recreational drug usage increases recreational drug usage in a society.
Perhaps - but for most drugs, not by much, since the disincentives inherent in the drugs themselves outweigh the removed disincentives of possible arrest.
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Then tell me which society legalized drugs and saw a precipitous decline in drug usage and drug addiction.
Do you not see how illogical you are being?