Comments for Why legalisation works at http://www.adamsmith.org , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.adamsmith.org Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:04:00 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/health/why-legalisation-works-200807031641/#comment-547 There's a similar critique from the Freakonomics link between banning abortion and increased crime rates and the numbers of deaths from increased crime rates. You may consider abortion wrong, on the basis that it kills a baby, but what about the adults you thereby kill by increasing crime by forcing women to have babies when they are not in a position to raise them well? (those babies are more likely to turn into criminals as they become adult). It turns out, as I recall, that moderately more people were being killed in the USA by the increase in crime than the number of babies who were born that would have been aborted. - Toby Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:25:17 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/health/why-legalisation-works-200807031641/#comment-531 In a truly liberal society it surely follows that with individual freedom comes individual responsibility. Why am I therefore expected, as a tax payer, to pay for the consequences of other people's actions? If society gets involved by controlling what we do, then I can accept a responsibility to pay for the consequences and management of that policy, but if we go for the liberal option on drugs and prostitution, then I or anyone else should not be expected to pay for other people's actions, even if they drug themselves into oblivion or give themselves HIV. - Arthur Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:10:51 +0100