Comments on: Drugs and Mexico and Monkeys http://joemullins.com/archive/2010/04/13/drugs-and-mexico-and-monkeys.php Because hard drives are cheaper than therapy Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:24:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Joe http://joemullins.com/archive/2010/04/13/drugs-and-mexico-and-monkeys.php/comment-page-1#comment-16822 Joe Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:25:19 +0000 http://joemullins.com/?p=919#comment-16822 <p>I definitely agree. I think unconscious animal instinct underlies a lot of uninformed moralism which leads to shitty public policy.</p> <p>I think at least some of this is present in the prohibition of prostitution as well. I think it kills our monkey brains to see people having easy access to sex (reproduction) that bypasses normal (largely inherited and instinctual) social ritual.</p> I definitely agree. I think unconscious animal instinct underlies a lot of uninformed moralism which leads to shitty public policy.

I think at least some of this is present in the prohibition of prostitution as well. I think it kills our monkey brains to see people having easy access to sex (reproduction) that bypasses normal (largely inherited and instinctual) social ritual.

]]> By: The Big Swede http://joemullins.com/archive/2010/04/13/drugs-and-mexico-and-monkeys.php/comment-page-1#comment-16820 The Big Swede Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:50:08 +0000 http://joemullins.com/?p=919#comment-16820 <p>I think you're on to something. I get the same feeling out of a lot of social policy debate—some people would rather that genuinely deserving people don't get the help they need so that somebody somewhere doesn't get something they don't deserve.</p> I think you’re on to something. I get the same feeling out of a lot of social policy debate—some people would rather that genuinely deserving people don’t get the help they need so that somebody somewhere doesn’t get something they don’t deserve.

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