tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post6783511615258371668..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: The price of prohibition....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-50544806643319399742012-02-13T21:08:48.884+00:002012-02-13T21:08:48.884+00:00"According to local people two of the most po...<i>"According to local people two of the most popular drinks on the reservation are Hurricane malt liquor and and Evil Eye malt liquor."</i><br /><br />Yuk. Sounds like Gold Label Barley Wine. Double yuk!<br /><br /><i>"...it results entirely from the stupidity of prohibition..."</i><br /><br />How true. The do-gooders have a lot to answer for.<br /><br /><i>"Those of us who believe in freedom must believe also in the freedom of individuals to make their own mistakes. If a man knowingly prefers to live for today, to use his resources for current enjoyment, deliberately choosing a penurious old age, by what right do we prevent him from doing so? We may argue with him, seek to persuade him that he is wrong, but are we entitled to use coercion to prevent him from doing what he chooses to do? <b>Is there not always the possibility that he is right and we are wrong?</b> Humility is the distinguishing characteristic of the believer in freedom, arrogance of the paternalist."</i><br /><br />Milton Friedman.<br /><br />Wise words indeed.nisakimannoreply@blogger.com