What would happen if laws were changed, such as drug laws, gun laws, environmental laws, internet usage, etc?
History shows that every time we pass a law banning something a lot of people want, we give the criminals a new source of tax free income. It happened with alcohol. It happened with pornography. It’s been happening with drugs for decades. We had the sense to lift the bans on alcohol and pornography. Now, no one kills anyone else for the right to sell either one on their turf and the government gets to collect taxes on both. We haven’t been that smart about drugs, yet. Regarding the Internet: “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” — John Gilmore In general: “And now bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.
