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>>jimbob+(OP)
Silly take: humans are really bad at controlling themselves and stick to doing the correct things, that's why newer languages like Go and Rust force you to check errors in return values, among many other additional checks/guardrails that didn't exist or weren't common in older languages. It is just easier to have the compiler checks these things for you instead of manually making sure things are correct. Same for sports gambling. Human nature is really bad, and it is really hard to control yourself. See that wsj reporting. Even someone as rich and educated as a psychiatrist can sink 6 digit amount of money into gambling. When the law allowed gambling, especially online gambling, it opened a can of worms.

>>rty32+0p2
If human nature is truly that inherently bad and dangerous, then the worst possible thing we could do is to allow adult human beings to rule over other adult human beings as their parent, using the threat of violence to prevent them from doing things “for their own good”.

Indeed, allowing this to occur has wrought orders of magnitude more death and destruction than sports gambling or drug use or prostitution.

no victim == no crime

>>sneak+ip2
If I understand your comment correctly, you are saying laws are bad, and decriminalization/deregulation is good

I would very much like to believe that. But see what happened in Oregon after decriminalizing drugs.

>>rty32+ss2
Look what happened in Mexico and California and many other places after criminalizing them.

They are not the same thing. One causes huge amounts of murder and violence, and the other is simply people destroying their own selves, as is their right.

Almost all of the gun crime in the US is the direct result of the prohibitions on the sale and manufacture of drugs.