captain_slinky: (Smile)
captain_slinky ([personal profile] captain_slinky) wrote2014-02-24 07:19 am

No

Trying to figure out if, historically, have "bans" on anything ever been accepted and/or embraced on an American National level (other than stuff based on The Top 10 Commandments, which were made-up before we got here)? No Irish, No Jews, No Coloreds, No Gays, No Guns, No Drinking - all things that were tried and failed. Things that have *kind of* stuck or at least a little bit - No Drunk Driving, No Drugs - are *there*, but it seems that everyone just ignores them.

I think that the louder you say NO, the more it makes people think about what you're shouting NO about and realizing, hey, it doesn't really make a difference.



Furthermore, it kind of works against you... making a certain section of the population say "Ooooh, that's forbidden now? I have to check that out!"

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