do you agree with this philosophy?

Question

people are going to do "x" anyways.....so let's jsut make "x" legal

i mean if x is something bad obviously

Answer 1

No. If we let people do what they are going to do, then there are no constraints. Do we make murder legal because people are going to do it anyway? Do we allow people to go as fast as they want on the roads because some want to go too fast? I think not.

Part of making some things illegal is to set guidelines for people to know what civilized people should and shouldn't do. Rapists, thieves, murderers, etc., we need to keep those sorts away from people who would live in peace.

And what is wrong with a little self-control? Just because it is a desire of mine, doesn't make it something I should act on.

Answer 2

Well what's funny is, just the fact that something is illegal makes it more exciting to certain individuals. Yes, of course, people are going to do it anyways, regardless of it being illegal or not. What would cause them to stop doing it, is when the consequences of their actions finally hit home, and they learn a lesson from experience, not to do that anymore. Or at least learn to do it in a more responsible manner. But not all of the human race has evolved to that level yet.

Take for instance, in cave man days, a person says, "Hey, I wander what would happen if I bashed this person on the head with a rock?" So they do it, and it kills the person. Well, common sense should tell you now, that it is not a good thing to bash someone over the head with a heavy object, because it either hurts, or kills you. But sadly, there are still people out there who have not evolved to learning from their own mistakes. Which is why murder, drug abuse, rape, and everything else we consider immoral, is still around today. So therefore, to be able to protect the people who do have this understanding, and also to protect the people who don't have this understanding from doing any further harm to themselves, there have to be laws that prohibit them from doing as they please.

If we ALL had the ability to learn from each experience, and to evolve from them into better human beings, then there would be no need for laws. Because the best way to learn what is right and what isn't is through experience. We would all be constantly evolving and learning, and the need for laws would become nonexistant. We would be free to experience life as we pleased, and learn what is beneficial and what is harmful from those experiences. But that's not the case in our present time, so laws are sometimes still necessary.

Answer 3

It is of course in our nature to always answer the question, for our own persuasive rasons, with the worst possible scenarios. Murder, rape, molestation, theft: all of these are and will ALWAYS be big no nos. This question should, and most probably is, directed towards the more mundane: drugs, marriage, public nudity, the drinking age, the smoking age, censorship: basically those that harm us either on an individual or pschological level.

When it comes to gay marriage, legalizing drugs, lowering the drinking age and the smoking age I would like, for a moment, to turn all eyes to Europe. Of course I can see the MADD view, no one wants to allow for their children to be torn up by stupid mistakes my stupid people but i belive that once something is illegal it is much more appealing thus leading to an opposite effect then that desired. By all means continue to watch the roads and insure that no one is let to drive impaired but dont make it more appealing to the youth by maing it illegal. We dont see the same problems coming from the youth in Europe, where there is no drinking age, where it is not illegal to pruchase or consume, we see that deaths are fewer. Why: because it is no longer as appealing.

Similarly drugs, which will make their way to the hands of consumers around the world regardles of the trillons spent to keep our streets clean while simulteanously allowing for other countries to benefit from out overindulgent chronic hungry minority.

Gay marriage, I'm not even going to go into this one, human beings are allowed rights no matter tehir preference, end of story. When men who beat heir wives and molest their children are allowed the "sanctity of marriage" their is nothing sacred to keep.

When it comes to censorship and such we must remember that this is a movement very much of a modern age. For years children were allowed the truth of sex, preganancy, the beauty of the human body, and only recently do we pretend there are storks and that sex is a vile thing no one should ever practice (unless of course, as chirstians say, your married).

All in all it is wiser to allow for those blatantly wrong offenses to keep being enforced and allow for those that can be let go be gone.

Answer 4

That depends on how "x" affects other people. For example, I don't see any harm in soft drugs. It doesn't hurt other people, and frankly there is tons of legal stuff that is far worse. Let people smoke marijuana in the privacy of their homes if they want to.

Same thing with gay marriage. It doesn't hurt anyone. They just want to be able to marry like anyone else.

On the other hand, people will steal, rape, and commit murder. That hurts other people, and under no circumstances should such acts be legal.

Answer 5

No. That's a cop out. With freedom comes discipline and responsibility. When you let people just do the bad that they want, inevitably they get into trouble and then come crying for a rescue. On a bigger scale the rest of us end up paying for it. People that do what they want pollute the rest of us and society. Just look around at the personal, social and economic costs of drugs, alcoholism, promiscuity, adultery, greed, you name it.

Answer 6

Only if:

1. No one else is harmed by the act (i.e. murder)
2. No one else is harmed by by-products of the act (Killed by a drunk driver)
3. I don't have to pay for it (i.e. the "users" hospital bills)
4. I do not have to submit myself or my children to it (A teacher preaching "harmless" Satanic rituals at my child's school)
5. The environment (non-human) is not harmed (Cruelty to animals, pollution)

Since those conditions won't ever happen, I don't think this "philosophy" will ever fly as a general concept.

Answer 7

If "X" becomes legal, a lot of people will die from over use. Just because a lot of people do stupid things, doesn't mean that it should be legal.

A lot of people commit murder, should this be legal?

People molest kids, should this be legal?

Do you see where I'm going with this?

Answer 8

People are always going to do illegal activities. There are many people who kill their children daily, should it be legal? I would hope not. Learn to be a leader, not a follower.

Answer 9

That isn't philosophy that is life. I do agree with philosophy though. People are always going to do what they aren't supposed to. It is our way of learning.

Answer 10

i don't think so, legalizing "X" will make us as equal as animals. besides the world is already over populated.This is where gays n lesbians get their credits