Yes, every society will have drugs and rape etc. Still, Singapore (faults and all) is far more successful than liberal Euro-socialist countries with their soft-on-drug policies.
RE: Left’s straw man argument. No conservative I’ve met has ever said a real war would eliminate all stupidity, but it is better than the alternative motherhood culture.
Are they more successful? By what measure? I’ve never heard of a widespread drug problem in, say, Norway.
And if elimination isn’t your goal, what is exactly?