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Originally Posted by Ustwo
The war on murder costs millions and millions every year and yet people are still murdering, its obviously not working and insane to continue to spend money on the issue.
An absurd example but the logic is the same. The issue should not be how much, or how many, but what would be the cost of changing to society. I do not have a good answer for that, and neither does anyone. Perhaps it would be best if they were legal, I don't know for sure, but I do know that expense of enforcement alone isn't the only way to look at it.
Still doesn't explain why you included that in your first post. Its not relevant to the conversation.
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The cost to our civil liberties has been enormous. This is the most pressing problem with the WOD, as I see it. Some of these issues might crossover into prostitution as well... For a good (but long) read, check out this paper over at CATO:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-180.html
Not to mention, if your in the whole "America needs to spread democracy" bandwagon, the WOD is quite antithetical to that goal. We start arms races with the drug lords and basically turn them into warlords, who tend to be forces of oppression for anyone who isnt a part of their cartel.