Reductio ad absurdum
Hate and fear come together to form the most noxious social concoctions, prohibitions. Those who believe that Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde are real share an affliction with the fictional character. In their case a lie serves the same purpose and produces the same effect. Such a simple idea really, a good man takes a drug and becomes a bad man. While good fiction it is bad fact. There is no support in science that would suggest such a thing. A drug can easily kill you, but to assume a drug can make a good boy steal money from his mother’s purse, is something only a loving but naive mother could believe.
So it was in the beginning when men broke under the strain of the frontier life, turning to ‘demon rum’ to dull their pain. The reversal of cause and effect was so easy. It served everyone’s interest. Prohibitionist played on this denial, enlisting support from both sides of the issue with one lie. It’s not little Johnny’s problem; it’s the drug, sex, pornography or what ever. Mom and Dad get to keep admiring and loving their son and their son escapes responsibility and the annoying need to control his appetites at the same time. Separating man from his behavior only delays the reckoning that must follow.
Evils most defining quality is harm. Without harm, evil is just a strange perspective. So it would be with the drug-war, morality war, ET all. But his mythical perspective on the species has been breathed life with lies. It is now laying waist to our democracy, our society, and freedom itself.
These pseudo supporters while not themselves evil, operate at evils behest. They are deeply ensconced in what I call type three stupidity. Briefly that is a special type of stupidity that is the mixture of time, concurrence and the absolute certainty of something that is not so. Type two stupidity is not quit as bad and type one is that with which we arrived. The flat-earthers formerly held the title for type three or protracted stupidity.
If these drug warriors can set aside their certainty long enough to realize that there is no support in science or reason for their dim view of our species. Paradoxically, those suffering from ‘drug-addiction’, drug abuse or whatever, are just more victims of the lie. Believing in a lie, gives it life that it does not deserve. You are powerless only when you believe you are.
Reductio ad absurdum is a logical process and debating technique whereby equating a proposition logically with that which is clearly absurd disproves that proposition. So the rational behind the drug war could easily be shown to be analogous to laws against tall buildings and bridges. Such laws would be absurd, but could be created by the same process generating prohibitions. That someone would use an object or substance to do themselves harm is not surprising if that someone is filled with self-loathing. Blaming this state of mind on the building or bridge from which the poor soul chose to end his life, belittles the species while, of course, being absurd.
Prohibition is the last and sole purview of the tyrant in a free world. Stop the last tyranny of man. Vote against prohibitions and their supporters. Let’s loose the fear of the future, of man and his freedom. A contrived future based on bad science, social skills and fear is no future for man or his freedom.
Rick Wolfe