Claiming That Legalizing Narcotics Will "Help Solve the Problem" Challenges My God-Given Intellect
I've heard of how some politically correct organizations want to legalize the use of narcotics or dangerous/illegal drugs. I was thinking about the unsubstantiated claim that the war on narcotics is deemed ineffective. They also claim that if you legalize narcotics that you will put the drug cartels out of business because high supply of drugs will push the prices of drugs down. This claim is absurd based on my God-given common sense for these reasons:
- If the prices of narcotics were lower then wouldn't that encourage more buyers? If one could purchase drugs at much lower prices then wouldn't that be more profitable for the cartels if they had more customers than a select few?
- If drugs were legalized and taxed then wouldn't that encourage the use of such dangerous substances? It's giving them legal power to commit sin. There would be no need for sleazy transactions to protect the narcotic traders because the government now protects them legally.
- If that's the case then if the war on crime can't be eradicated by a war on crime then I guess we should legalize all sins and tax them, right?
The very idea that narcotics will do no harm to anyone (according to "experts" anyway) is just like Satan's claim in the Garden of Eden. Do you remember his claim in Genesis 3:1-5?
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? [2] And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: [3] But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. [4] And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: [5] For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
I remembered attending an anti-drug symposium back in my teenager years. The speaker himself had mentioned about how drug addiction ruined his life. I tried asking a question of how to spot a drug peddler. The drug peddler would never tell you that drugs will ruin you. It's very typical for a swindler to say, "Trust me." Isn't that what Satan did at the Garden of Eden? He twisted God's obvious truth one way or another. Drug peddlers will never tell you that it's dangerous. Instead, they will lie how these drugs will make one cool, feel great and that if people take drugs then so should you.
This time, the biggest drug peddlers also involve politically correct people who want to legalize narcotics claiming that it's the only way to stop it. They are entering into various posts making up their claims that narcotics won't harm anyone. There are also some people who graduated in various specialized fields who now twist the truth. They would commit Ad Hominem against people who speak against them and use their degrees to spread their lies about narcotics.
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; [5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. [6] For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, [7] Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
Just thinking about people taking narcotics just love pleasure more than God. There's even a drug that's rightfully called ecstasy. People take these narcotics in order to have a "good time" and to have some pleasure. It really makes me sick how people turn to narcotics because they are in rebellion against God. Worse, there are even so-called experts who want to support such activity to the point of legalizing it. I wouldn't be surprised if there will be legalization of narcotics considering that many sins such as drunkenness, gambling and abortion have been legalized.
Even so come Lord Jesus!
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