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Posted at 3:25 am on April 5, 2010, by Wirkman Virkkala
I may disapprove of what you take, but I’ll defend till your death your right to take it. The same sort of values and reasoning that support the right of free speech supports, also, the right of self-medication. Because we have had free speech rights, but have lacked the right to self-medicate, the two rights seem (to many) the most distant of cousins, if not warring foes. To most folk, the idea of self-medication? Heaven (or the state) forbid: We must always be guided by doctors, who know better! Filed under: Drug Policy, Nanny State Comments: Comments Off on The Logic of Self-Medication
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"[T]he whole of economics can be reduced to a single lesson, and that lesson can be reduced to a single sentence. The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups."