Claim to prohibition is immoral, ahistoric
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Claim to prohibition is immoral, ahistoric

Hindustan Times  

The truth is deaths caused by the consumption of spurious liquor are double tragedies. If safe, good quality and cheap or reasonably priced alcohol is available for all adults to buy, within all the acknowledged and accepted conditions of the law, few if any people would risk their lives drinking hooch. It’s why leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and, sometimes, Constitutions like ours seek to wean people away from what they consider human weakness or vice. It’s the mistaken quest to make people perfect or, at least, to strive towards it. It’s also true of Rishi Sunak’s foolish proposal to ban people born after a particular year from smoking cigarettes.

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