2 solutions - let kids drink, or let them smoke

Because as the market dictates, when you forbid an action (especially to a rat), that person is more likely to find an alternative that is less safe.

Examples:
1. War on Drugs - leads to the black market, and drugs cut/diluted with bleach, chalk, or other harmful chemicals - leading to deaths (not by the drugs, but by the byproducts resulting from no regulation).
2. Prohibition - Led to crime. Duh.
3. Abortions - Leads women to have them anyway in dangerous ways.
4. Highs - When you ban children from experimenting and enjoying life (IE having sex, smoking, drinking, or basically doing anything fun) they find alternatives, such as the choking game.

http://www.connectwithkids.com/tipsheet/2005/235_jun29/choke.html

Solution (which is bad because we're such a politically correct and gay society) - release all bans on everything. Result - Regulation leads to clean manufacturing, black market disappears because a normal market takes over, and deaths actually decrease.

My stance is such that it is not the government's job to protect us from ourselves. Their only job is to protect us from enemies. And the government has no right to tell people what they can or can't do with their bodies. Because who is the government? They're just people, like you or me. Would you listen to your neighbor if they tried to tell you what to do? Then why would you listen to a bunch of old geezer elitists who live in 4 million dollar houses and make enormous salaries that they can raise anytime they want, and have NO CLUE about what it is like to be an everyday american?

Like Michael Savage says - I just get mad when someone with half my iq tries to tell me what to do.