donathos on 02 April 2009
| Words Of Wisdom said: Ideally it would be banned and no one would smoke. Slowly taxing it into oblivion is the next best thing. |
Here's the thing. I'm uncomfortable with basing laws (including "purposeful taxation" like this) on what we think an "ideal" society would be like.
Certain laws, I understand--against murder, against theft, against arson, etc.
But when we start getting into "ideally"... I mean, I could see someone arguing, not without justification, that "ideally" nobody would waste their time playing videogames--they would do more productive things instead.
But taxing videogames into oblivion is the next best thing to banning them outright.
