• someguy3@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That’s the logical argument, but that’s not why we have liquor laws. Think way back when, it started with religious anti-drinking. Think prohibition, that was all rooted in religion. But when prohibition failed they had to settle on strict control.

    Funny thing now is that as the right loses its “real” religion they want looser liquor laws, and its the left that now wants the logical liquor control. But again the real reason we’ve had liquor laws for hundreds of years has been religion.

    The reason for gambling laws was to keep the money out of gangs.