Failures Solitary Survivor
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006The emergence of the scientific method has skyrocketed technological growth. Where once mans imagination roamed free to conjure any conclusion, it was now constrained to reason and repeatability. Since this evolutionary development mankind has risen from the dark superstitious Cro-Magnons to the enlightened beings we imagine ourselves to be today.
Information, communication and transportation revolutions have transformed the world. Even the justice system has experienced a surge of improvement with CSI investigators gathering the inevitable microscopic evidence to convict only the guilty with absolute certainty.
But the old days call us back with the issue of drugs . Science is now anathema. Any discussion or study, which does not support the policy, is ignored. In the place of reasoned discourse we have political planks.
Producing more human suffering than any war in history, prohibition persists blindly in the face of all reason as failures solitary survivor. The undying support for this failed policy is clearly popular, but why?
Supporters seem to continue their support as every reason for support is disproved. No matter how many lies, no matter how many otherwise laughable assertions revealed for what they are, support continues unabated as if no harm could be worse than man left to deal personally with his personal appitites.
This sociological anachronism defies all logic. Persueing prohibition is a compulsion with no rational explanation. Science in its solitary failure is unable to shed light in the dark corners from which drug war reasoning arises.
Rick Wolfe