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Re: If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:04:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton writes:
> > I bet it's easier than we are led to believe. We'd just have to
> > be willing to pay for it.
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> Pay for it how? Through competition? IE the US competing against new, truly
> weighty countries? Or more in a moral sense, like feeling morally violated
> by legalizing drugs? Or, I suppose, in a physical sense?
I mean, I think we have sufficient wealth that with out too weighty a burden,
we could leverage some of that wealth to turn impoverished nations into active
customer nations that would eventually blossom into competitors. Not only,
_could_ we, but in the context of our tax and spend system (with which I
disagree philosophically, as everyone probably knows), we ought to.
> I guess the
> question is are you implying that the US is intentionally keeping those
> countries behind us to further our own power?
I don't know. Probably some countries some of the time and in some ways. But
certainly not all of them.
I tend to think that doling out bucks to poor nations is a ham-fisted way of
trying to A) help the people and B) buy loyalty. But in general it does
neither. We should be investing in their infrastructure instead. Particularly
their educational infrastructure.
Chris
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