If you want to change people’s minds it’s often helpful to understand what they think and why they think it. It’s helpful to know the reasons they’ll give you. But it’s even more valuable to understand the emotions behind the reasons. Most people, most of the time change our minds when our feelings change and use logic and reason to back-justify our new perspective.
War on Drugs? What would happen if all recreational drugs were legal? Imagine advertising for existing drugs. Imagine the effort Pfizer, and all other pharmaceutical companies, would devote to creating a product so addictive, that once tried, no customer would want to live without it. Imagine the government that would drool over the prospects for tax revenue from this irresistible product. Tobacco provides some idea of how things would go. Sex work? Similar concerns would arise. In my dystopian view, some depraved parents would groom children for this line of work.
War on Drugs? What would happen if all recreational drugs were legal? Imagine advertising for existing drugs. Imagine the effort Pfizer, and all other pharmaceutical companies, would devote to creating a product so addictive, that once tried, no customer would want to live without it. Imagine the government that would drool over the prospects for tax revenue from this irresistible product. Tobacco provides some idea of how things would go. Sex work? Similar concerns would arise. In my dystopian view, some depraved parents would groom children for this line of work.