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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
^ Actually, [MERIT], as a general rule they do work, but obviously they don't eliminate the problem completely. You might as well expect that there'll never ever be another drunk-driving accident because of the drunk-driving laws.
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To be fair, it's more like expecting 0 drunk driving incidents in a state where it's illegal to buy, sell or consume alcohol. Numbers would drop significantly, but there would still be the odd one. So, yes the laws are effective if they're enforced on a large scale and not just in certain counties or regions of a state/nation.
As far as war and murder goes, I have to somewhat agree that you're basically going in with the knowledge that you're going to be killing someone else, and that's why it absolutely has to be a last resort and not a step before. If people's safety and your own safety is at risk, then that's when it's time and the problem with Vietnam is that there were so many lies told about our involvement. Until years after, the lie was that Vietnam sunk one of our ships until it was proven that the Johnson Administration lied. Also, we were bombing all of Southeast Asia for the most part which the public had no idea of, so it wasn't just Vietnam but Laos, Cambodia, Burma, etc.