"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Law-makers' Fallacy
"There’s a connection between the demand to criminalize mephedrone and Tim Loughton’s call to prosecute more teenagers for having sex.
Both fail to see what the law does. The law does not ban things - at least not directly - but rather changes incentives. And these changes might not have wholly desirable effects."
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