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...