Let's just analyze the problem of "Regulation" more closely. I have recently wrote an article about how Regulation actually makes more harm than good:
In that article I mostly debated 
Now I have without a shadow of a doubt demonstrated that Government Regulation does more harm than good in pretty much all situations, in the past article. However I wasn't very articulate, and I didn't really touched all aspects of this problem, plus this is a very complex problem so it's not like you can sum up the past 200 years of human development in a Steemit post.
Let me put it this way, it is absolutely true that Government Regulation doesn't work, but that is not the end of it, this actually opens up more questions, because the issues do exist, it's just they are not treated well. Like the issues addressed by Regulators do exist, and they are very big problems, it's just that the bureaucrat is doing nothing to solve them, and quite frankly in most cases it actually aggravates the situation.
Let me give you a practical example of a Regulatory issue: Smoking
Alright, I hope in the 21st century it is absolutely clear that Smoking is very unhealthy and it has no benefits whatsoever. Like there were propaganda campaigns in the past that tried portraying Smoking cigarettes or cigars as alleviating stress and things like that. But we know now for sure and this is not even debatable that Smoking causes cancer, lung cancer, throat cancer, you name it. In fact it has absolutely no benefit whatsoever, tobacco is literally a poison. I have just read a very underrated article about the health issues related to Smoking, you might want to check it out:
So if Smoking is bad, it has absolutely no benefits whatsoever, and it costs people a ton a lot of money in healthcare costs and does untold damage to society, healthwise and otherwise. Especially if healthcare costs are socialized, your taxes would drop massively if Smoking would not exist, but even on an individual healthcare system it's better for the economy if people are healthy.
So the final logical conclusion would be to just ban it. Like ban it completely, nobody should smoke. I mean you can get pleasure from tons of other places and it has no benefit whatsover but it does great harm to society, then the logical conclusion would be to just ban it.
The problem with "bans"
Ok so it would be nice if tobacco would be banned. However there is a massive problem here that people are overlooking.
There is no such thing as a "ban" on something. Like if there would be a button that you can push that would erase from existence all the tobacco products past/present/future, then obviously why not push it? If tobacco could be erased from existence then it should be, after all why would we want negative things?
But that is not what a "ban" is. A "ban" means that thugs in blue uniform will kick down your door, kidnap you, and put you in a cage if you dare to smoke a cigarette.
There is no "ban" because Government is not a God that can simply just create/destroy things. All they can and will do is just order people around, and force people to do certain things under the threat of violence.
So a "ban" on tobacco means that taxes would actually increase and not decrease (as predicted earlier due to healthcare cost savings), since you need to setup a bureaucracy, an investigatory power, a law enforcement agency that will hunt down everyone daring to use tobacco.
Plus mafias start appearing providing a black market for tobacco, after all the demand doesn't go away, only the supply gets illegalized.
So the violence will increase as well, you won't just have mafias operating massive rackets, but you will also have massive police brutality, surveillance and a police-state to destroy a peaceful society.
Benefits <> Drawbacks
So as you can see, as bad as Smoking is, and as much harm it causes healthwise to society, banning it would create almost like a Nazi level Tyranny.
In fact the Drug War in the USA and other parts of the world is doing exactly just that. Everyone hates drugs and drug related gangs and violence, therefore a massive police state is growing in those regions. This includes 3rd world countries as well.
I mean legalizing marijuana would be very important, but it's not a solution, it's just a solution to the police state, but not necessarily to the healthcare system.
Like I don't know what are the health benefits/risks of marijuana, I have never used it, it's illegal here, but I am pretty sure that having a Nazi Police State has absolutely no benefits at all.
So dismantling the Nazi Tyranny would be a bigger priority in my opinion now, than the healthcare side. And then we can deal with the healthcare problems.
Like I don't know, it could range from education, to public service announcements to just raising awareness. Like have the fucking schools teach something useful for once, to be a responsible adult, that would be nice.
So if the drugs get legalized, the Police State would go away, and the other issues that lead to drug use would be solved by alternative/peaceful methods.
You know it's better to talk to people than to beat them up with police batons. That would be the first step towards a better society.
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