Quote from: creighto on June 08, 2011, 11:36:42 PM

I finally get to post a new one...

http://www.fox2now.com/news/ktvi-missouri-lawmakers-want-to-shut-down-drug-dealing-website-20110607,0,2162224.story

I heard somewhere that legislating morality and ethics does not work.

One cannot force a junkie to be clean. You can lock him up, but you won't force him to be clean.

One cannot force a cheater to be a loyal husband/wife. You can divorce him/her, but she/he won't be forced to be loyal and committed to his/her spouse.

We once tried to force alcoholics to be clean by prohibiting alcohol. We only drove alcohol and alcoholics underground.

When are we going to learn that a indecent person will not be forced or legislated into decency unless that person arrives at his or her own beliefs about the pros and cons of living a decent life?

See, shutting down Silk Road is not good enough, because BitCoin and Tor will allow the creation of a new one. Next, we are going to go after BitCoin, until BitCoin "The Sequel" emerges, if it hasn't already in another way shape or form as I have been reading/learning on this Forum.

Are we going to shut down the internet next in order to force responsibility on people?

Are we going to then put cameras and wiretaps on every phone in the USA to force people to be responsible?

The only reason I am driving this to an extreme is because FORCE does not work. LET PEOPLE BE IRRESPONSIBLE BEFORE THEY CAN GROW INTO RESPONSIBLE ONES. There is no SHORTCUT to responsibility - everyone has to walk the road to responsibility, bumpy and thorny as it may be, at least, so it seems to me....

Yes, I know it's tragic to have 13 year olds smoke marijuana or crack.... or is it more tragic that parents are so fucking absent from that kid's life that he will be drawn to marijuana and crack? Which do we put first - the horse or the cart? It's a catch-22.

Legislating ethics and morality never pays off. Allowing people to arrive at their own conclusions of whether something works or does not work - DOES work, while we protect ourselves in the process.

Do I say NO GOVERNMENT at all? fuck no. If someone rampages on streets with an Uzi - by all means, apprehend and kill him and I am willing to pay for that kind of protection 24/7, a cut from my paycheck - but leave it at that - MINIMAL government.

The libertarians are apparently going to get their way with BitCoin.

Long live BitCoin, Libertarians and all the people of the world, all 6.8 billion!