{"id":1876,"date":"2006-06-02T06:55:29","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T14:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2006-06-02T06:55:29","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T14:55:29","slug":"the-trouble-with-victimless-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1876","title":{"rendered":"the trouble with victimless crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/commentary\/20060530-095106-1950r.htm\">Bruce Fein<\/a>&#8216;s language:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> The nation&#8217;s experiment with Prohibition underscores the limits of the law without moral consensus. The Prohibition Amendment was ratified as a type of homage that vice pays to virtue. Popular morality never celebrated abstinence.  . . .  Prohibition laws died in adolescence for lack of moral sustenance.<\/p>\n<p> Immigration restrictions are even more problematic than their Prohibition counterparts. While alcohol consumption was not generally condemned, it was likewise not popularly acclaimed as a virtue. In contrast, the conduct and character of illegal aliens elicit accolades by at least half the population. . . . <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Bruce Fein&#8216;s language: The nation&#8217;s experiment with Prohibition underscores the limits of the law without moral consensus. The Prohibition Amendment was ratified as a type of homage that vice pays to virtue. Popular morality never celebrated abstinence. . &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1876\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugwar","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}