It is getting more painful to sit through the panels on media shows. The producers of those shows seem to put people on who have no regard for the moderator, no courtesy to others,
and also little about what they are talking about. Their attempt to predict the future is so often based on poor understanding of their subjects, people and otherwise, The voices of doom and the worst possible outcomes are the most frequent guests, it seems. To better undertand these 'slippery slope' arguments, click here.
When those arguments don't work, such as: 'If prohibition is lifted everyone will become alcoholics.' There is no way to research is there is a greater percentage of alcoholics in our society today than when he we had prohibition or not. We do know that there is less crime around alcohol services and the mob no longer control the market, delivery and profit.
The slippery slopers also believe (erroneously) that if marijuana is made legal everyone will up the drugs and become heroin addicts. There is no research, to my knowledge, which can support that conclusion. However, the most ridiculous slippery sloper I have recently heard is from Rick Santorum who said that if contraceptives are allowed, it only encourqages women to go out and have sex for pleasure. (He is a firm believer sex should be for procreation only.) South Americans have learned to have their massive free-for-all celebrations and festivals and often people DO have sex just for fun and pleasure. Something must be good about it because it is the highlight of everyone's painful, overworked, poverty stricken life.A few hours of stress free time is healthy. Why would anyone want to have a president who is so out of touch with the people he would represent. He misses that he is not voted in as loco parentis, It is assumed that , if you are old enough to vote, you are old enough to figure what is best for you and the politician is elected to represent you at the bargaining table between the parties.
and also little about what they are talking about. Their attempt to predict the future is so often based on poor understanding of their subjects, people and otherwise, The voices of doom and the worst possible outcomes are the most frequent guests, it seems. To better undertand these 'slippery slope' arguments, click here.
When those arguments don't work, such as: 'If prohibition is lifted everyone will become alcoholics.' There is no way to research is there is a greater percentage of alcoholics in our society today than when he we had prohibition or not. We do know that there is less crime around alcohol services and the mob no longer control the market, delivery and profit.
The slippery slopers also believe (erroneously) that if marijuana is made legal everyone will up the drugs and become heroin addicts. There is no research, to my knowledge, which can support that conclusion. However, the most ridiculous slippery sloper I have recently heard is from Rick Santorum who said that if contraceptives are allowed, it only encourqages women to go out and have sex for pleasure. (He is a firm believer sex should be for procreation only.) South Americans have learned to have their massive free-for-all celebrations and festivals and often people DO have sex just for fun and pleasure. Something must be good about it because it is the highlight of everyone's painful, overworked, poverty stricken life.A few hours of stress free time is healthy. Why would anyone want to have a president who is so out of touch with the people he would represent. He misses that he is not voted in as loco parentis, It is assumed that , if you are old enough to vote, you are old enough to figure what is best for you and the politician is elected to represent you at the bargaining table between the parties.
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