Re: If life meant life


"Cynic" <cynic_999@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:21:35 +0100, Michael Thompson
> <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Secret Squiddle bashed at the keyboard and came up with:
>>
>>> All this talk of deterrents, what about incentives not to commit the
>>> murder in the first place.
>>>
>>> Legalise: Drugs (all drugs), and prostitution and a great deal of
>>> murders
>>> would not take place.
>>>
>>> People who wished to take drugs could do so without being involved in
>>> crime to pay criminals inflated prices.
>>
>>They would still commit crime to buy the "legal" drugs.
>
> What makes you believe that? Do people commit robberies and similar
> in order to fund a tobacco or booze habit?

Well if they are commiting crime now for their habits, why would they stop
just because their supplier changed ?


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