gregdavidson wrote:
Out of all the addictive drugs out there, I believe alcohol is worst then all of them!
That's fine, but you can't include this in your list of logical arguments against the legality of it. What you believe is only your assumption.
gregdavidson wrote:
Alcohol has probably ruined more lives than all of the illegal drugs combined in the history of mankind! Many of the people that are drug addicts were alcoholics prior to their addiction. Whenever I see a homeless person on the side of the road with a beer in their hand, I see somebody who once had dreams and ambitions and basically gave up because the alcohol took over their lives. Most people would probably call them a "bum" and make fun of them. I believe alcohol has absolutely no purpose in this world and should be illegal. There are so many groups out there who feel cigarettes should be illegal yet there are none that feel alcohol should be illegal. Who cares about cigaretts! They can take up to 50 years to kill you! People can die in one night from drinking alcohol! Whenever you go to a party or social event where everyone is drinking, the peer pressure kicks in and you look stupid if you don't drink. And when it's time to go home and there's nobody around to drive you home, what do you do? Most people get in their cars and hope no cops pull them over. That's why there's so many drunk driving accidents out there. I think somebody should take a stand against alcohol because this is a serious issue. I know most of you are going to refer to prohibition and how it was a failure. This is the 21st century and times have changed!
1.Laws shouldn't be based on the ultimate statistics of a certain event or thing but on the individual thing itself.
For example, we don't say machine guns should be banned because 99% of the time, it is used for murder, but because of the physics and practicality of itself.
Suppose people decided to use bananas to kill people. And it resulted in 99% of the murders. Would it be okay to ban bananas? Absolutely not - the murdering with bananas is no different than murdering with non-bananas.
2.So with regards to all the people that are drunk with alcohol and thus cause car accidents, wouldn't it be reasonable to ban driving while drunk?
Oops, already done.
And other such laws already in existence regarding alcohol.