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Originally written by spy.there:

The proportion of male mods to female mods is unbalanced: in the ratio of 10 to 1. It should be 10 to 2 - to represent Spiderweb Boards properly. Thus we should elect a new female mod.
:P Sorry, Alec and MM, for bursting your bubble.

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

At first I like the sound of the argument that people are going to buy drugs anyway, so we should recognize the fact, and let the government exert some control over the process to minimize bad side effects, and extract some tax money from it as well, instead of letting criminals get all the profit. Sounds persuasive.

But we could make an exactly analogous proposal about contract killings:

People are going to pay hit men to rub out their enemies, and all the money will go to organized crime, and there are risks to innocent bystanders. So instead, we should legalize murder for hire. If you really want someone dead, you should be able to hire the Marines to send in a trained sniper team. Yada yada yada -- pretty much all the good things you could say about legalizing drugs seem to me to have analogues in this proposal.

Now it sounds to me as though there must be a problem with this form of argument.

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Originally written by Zeviz:

A question for Alec:

Under your system, how are you going to prevent a minor from buying dangerous, mafia-supplied version of drugs from the dealer down the street, who can undersell government-sponsored retailers by not paying taxes and diluting his drug with other substances?

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Originally written by Medicine Man:

Are there qualifications for candidacy?

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Originally written by Zeviz:

Do your schools have elected student governments? If they do, you have a pretty good idea of what "moderator elections" on this board would look like.

As for more practical aspect, there is a reason Misc forum was shut down. Do you want to get the General forum shut down as well?

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