• Scaramanga@thelemmy.club
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    18 hours ago

    Banning things has never worked. Just look back at history, it just drives things underground.

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      17 hours ago

      It does work. It objectively reduces whatever is banned. Just because enforcement cannot be 100%, that does not mean outlawing certain activities is a failure. Prohibition, for example, reduced alcohol consumption by 70%.

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        15 hours ago

        No it didn’t. Alcohol sales increased during prohibition. A lot of people got rich through the sale of alcohol flooding through from Canada.

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          5 hours ago

          Alcohol sales did not increase, though it did make a small number of people rich, that is true. That doesn’t change the fact prohibition was successful in greatly reducing alcohol consumption.