Okay we can go on and on about MDMA. When it was legal MILLIONS are using it in 1980. So MDMA is tested on human subjects already. So far, those millions are mostly doing fine. They’re not brain damaged or anything. May even have higher income than the rest. I’ve read that alcoholic has higher income.
When we see government record, we need to understand that government tries to scare us out of drug. So whatever government put must be THE BEST government can come up with. Government is not scientist. More like sellers, or prosecutors.
Let’s ignore the unclear statements. Saying that something is very dangerous is not exactly a clear scientific statement. So let’s examine the clear ones. Now what’s left? If the best government can come up with is “INCONCLUSIVE evidence that MDMA can interfere with memory and cognition in LONG TERM” without even describing how long and how much, that’s not very convincing.
I read about marijuana legalization issue. The best government can come up is that marijuana legalization doesn’t work because it increases use of marijuana. Think about it. If marijuana legalization actually increase murder rate, for example, government would have put it there. This is not a straw man argument. This is the best man argument. It’s the best government can put up without lying. If that’s the best you can do, well, tough.
Now go back to rebill vs marriage.
I think we have several issues here:
1. is limitation of rationality. Not simply because you know something you know anything logically implied by it. As the saying goes, read the small print. However, in reality no body would read every TOS of every website. The same way, no body read the whole marriage rules and contract that can be changed all the time anyway. So a way to persuade people is to hide negative material aspects away. Few people can reason that “By the power of the state of bla bla I declare you” mean “You got to keep paying this hoes after she keep fucking others’ cock.” The logic goes that the power of the state means you agree to be governed by the whim of the states’ legislator influenced by the votes of those other cocks. But who would have thought that far?
2. Thought experiment. Say the “I agree to keep paying you cash even though you already openly ride other’s cock” is part of the marital vow. After all, that’s what men actually effectively agree to right? It should be part of the “I do” thingy. Will that drop marital rate? The fact that it will shows that it’s actually a material part of marriage. Which is an important lesson why it should be part of the vow.
3. Outside legal framework, there are ways to maintain contract. One popular way is splitting the contract into small pieces. If people can enforce contract without government then they are free to decide for themselves. Marriage, for example, can be split apart into smaller pieces. You do me one time, I pay $100 first for example. You stop sucking. I stop paying. Wait a minute…. Why is it illegal again?
4. And finally the will of the consenting parties vs the will of those who write contracts. Let’s face it. Marriage may be a mistake for Beatty Chadwick. It’s a mistake so many swing voters want Beatty to make. Imagine if Beatty don’t make that mistake. Then he has 2.5 million dollars and can sleep with 10 beauties. For every Beatty, there will at least be 10 lonely males that want to vote against that under democracy. So yea, the fuck up part of marital deal will not be on the vow. What about if Beatty “import” women from Rusia? Then for every 1 Beatty there will be 10 ugly beldams that’ll never get laid. Not that someone with 2.5 million dollars will aim for ugly beldams. But women target can shift “up” and down when polygamy or women trafficking are allowed. Needless to say, I bet in US, those who opposes polygamy are usually middle class male and those who opposes women trafficking are women.
5. The point is, when you get married, everybody’s bigotic interest suddenly come into the marriage deal. It’s like asking Hitler to be Israel President.
What’s Behind MDMA, Rebill, and Marriage Vows? is a post from: Free Market Forever