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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 […]

Original post by rick and software by Elliott Back

The willingness to compromise is a much-overrated virtue I think. When you are right it is a cop out, when you are wrong it is condescension and when you are neither you are off point. I suspect compromise was a construct of a tyrant to eek out an advantage where there was none. Either that or I’m just in a bad mood. What do you think?
Rick Wolfe
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Original post by rick and software by Elliott Back