I am now persuaded that it would not be best resolved by prohibition, however there is good evidence that a lack of laborers will lead to an economic recession or depression, and such a depression will definitely effect billions as Japan is the third largest economy in the world.
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Alcohol was allowed for a while, and then it wasn't for a a decade or so during prohibition.
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He ran an underground distillery during Prohibition.
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Prohibition - Originally a movement to ban "immoral" activities championed by women and religious groups in the early 1900s, it ushered in the era of the mob and organized crime.
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Now, we're looking back on it and realizing that like prohibition, you cannot legislate individual responsibility.
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I would think the libertarian position on gay marriage would be to repeal prohibition not enforce state sponsored restrictions on liberty.
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It's not a prohibition against caffeine - it's avoidance of "strong drink."
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My grandfather was a bootlegger during the prohibition.
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Does it mean you support the repeal of sodomy and marriage prohibitions on homosexuals, but oppose adding them (us) to the lists of protected classes when it comes to discrimination in employment and public accommodation?
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There's a pretty good documentary by Ken Burns called Prohibition on Netflix.
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The latter would do the exact opposite of freeing people since it would inherently require violently enforced prohibition of trading (since the system apparently would know the needs and wants of every man, woman, and child) because where there is trading, there will be a medium of exchange.
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Prohibition has never worked and only increases crime.
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The loophole to the prohibition of wishing for more wishes seems to be wishing for more magic lamps inhabited by wish granting genies.
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Also that is awesome, need to go back to Prohibition some day.
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And her mom is fighting to end prohibition.
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Many of the other comments expand on arguments against the reading of certain passages as non-affirming: they don't refer to being gay as it occurs in the 21st century, the Bible's commands to love (especially in the context of LGBT suicides) trump its prohibitions on homosexuality, inputs other than the Bible are important in developing theology (what does science and the lives of queer folk tell us?
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Prohibition destroys yet more lives.
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Even with that prohibition in place they still haven't set up any kind of distribution system for there to even be any real medical patients in the state, and somehow these writers think this state will now pass a legalization bill next year?
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I lived in the marijuana prohibition..... there was no internet and smartphones..... you had to roll the window down and the save icon made sense
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The bottom line is that prohibition doesn't work.
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There is no prohibition whatsoever on women preaching.
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Effects of prohibition I bet.
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They are regarded as any other couple experiencing infertility, and not subject to any special rules or prohibitions.
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I simply argue that drug prohibition is akin to abstinence-only sex education: naive and ineffective at best, and at worst actually causing more problems than it solves.
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As an aside, we appear to have sidetracked into Ye Olde Druge Prohibition debate instead of the moral issue the OP was talking about.
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The conferees note the modification on the prohibition on domestic dissemination does not apply to other agencies of the U.S. Government, as the initial ban was also not applicable to them.
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Most of them are obviously on their own, like the prohibitions against murder or theft.
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Some are obviously grouped, like the three that make up "Keep holy the Sabbath" or the two that make up the prohibition on idolatry.
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It's about the birth of forensic medicine, as explored via poisons (including a lot of incidental poisons that were created during US Prohibition).
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That is probably cultural/religious (prohibition against pork) but still keeps the cost down
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Also, America during the Prohibition era had quite the counterculture.
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I'm struggling to find a useful cite on the web that covers this, but from what I recall from my college courses on the lost generation, the impetus for Americans emigrating to Paris during the 1920s was less prohibition and more the fact that France underwent a peroid of steep inflation in the aftermath of WWI, meaning that anybody being paid in dollars could live much, much more cheaply in Paris than they could in say, New York.
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Edit: just want to be clear I'm 100% anti-prohibition I am just mad at this title.
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One generation of progressives is for prohibition, the next is against it.
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On the other hand, many American Protestant Churches, having been affected by the Prohibition movement, certainly frown upon alcohol to varying degrees.
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Thus I believe that most of the hashtag activist types ("SJWs") are true believers and sincere in their own way, much like the many other moralist crusaders ever since the prohibition movement and onwards.
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Prohibition is ineffective; regulation is the long term solution but its politically salty.
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It'll be like prohibition.
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Even outright prohibition doesn't stop commerce, people will find a way.
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It's important to remember that Prohibition did not begin at the national level.
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The reason alcohol is legal is because it's so addictive that people wouldn't stop doing it during prohibition, creating a huge black market which lead to the rise of the mafia and the related violent crime of bootleggers fighting over territory.
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Latent pilgrim and puritan DNA, the temperance movement and prohibition, therapy culture and a curious fondness for psychoanalytic naval gazing, or none of the above.
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Indeed, its prohibition was a complete disaster.
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Belief in personal freedom is a huge component of Western morality, yet we maintain drug prohibition when there is objective evidence that not only does it not work but also that it exacerbates the problems we have with illegal drugs rather than mitigating them.
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During prohibition the sale of alcohol funded crime, if chocolate were made illegal the selling that would fund crime.
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Religion can be a convenient rationalization that people throw in the face of LGBT folks (even though I don't believe there is any technical prohibition of transition in religious texts, and an Islamic fatwa actually specifically condones it).
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