{"id":597,"date":"2005-08-11T17:32:40","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T21:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=597"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:52:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:52:42","slug":"why-everybody-is-wrong-about-the-drug-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/08\/11\/why-everybody-is-wrong-about-the-drug-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Everybody is Wrong about the Drug War"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jawa Report Archives: Why Everybody is Wrong about the Drug War<\/a><\/p>\n

This person makes a very, very interesting point. Here’s the quote:<\/p>\n

A slave is not good or bad because his actions are not his choice. People can only be moral when they choose to do the right thing, and a system of government that forces people to be good ceases to be the serveant <\/em>[sic] of the people and instead becomes their master<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I am for the legalization of drugs not because I am for drug use, but because I am for moral government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Makes you think about things in a different light, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This person makes a very, very interesting point. “A slave is not good or bad because his actions are not his choice. People can only be moral when they choose to do the right thing, and a system of government that forces people to be good ceases to be the serveant [sic] of the people and instead becomes their master. I am for the legalization of drugs not because I am for drug use, but because I am for moral government.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-9D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":901,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/06\/20\/why-do-governments-and-corporations-become-evil\/","url_meta":{"origin":597,"position":0},"title":"Why do Governments and Corporations become Evil?","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The corporate motto of Google, Inc. is \"Don't be Evil.\" While this might seem like playful banter from an amazingly successful company, it actually says something deep and meaningful about human society - namely, that organizations; be they corporations, religious groups, or governments; over time become \"evil.\"","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":622,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/09\/12\/myth-busting\/","url_meta":{"origin":597,"position":1},"title":"Myth “busting”","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 12, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"\"You know, you would think that a large group of people who have all read Guns, Germs and Steel, and taken its message that \"geography matters\" to heart, would pay just a leetle bit of attention to it when they start chastising America for not being more like Europe.\"","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4360,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2013\/06\/06\/why-corporate-participation-in-politics-is-bad-bad-bad\/","url_meta":{"origin":597,"position":2},"title":"Why Corporate Participation in Politics is Bad, Bad, Bad","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've talked before about why corporations are evil (or rather, why they tend to behave that way). 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