Vitaliy wrote:

>> It's funny how this both applies to many similar (and at first sight not
>> so similar) situations, and at the same time seems to be so difficult
>> to implement. 
>> 
>> (One of the "at first sight not so similar situations" I'm thinking of
>> is the War on Drugs. It seems to be vastly cheaper to provide the
>> addicts with proper care in a world where drugs are commercially
>> available than to maintain this war.)
> 
> You're comparing apples to circuit boards. :)  Free trade and the war on 
> drugs have rather different desired outcomes.

Yes, of course. But if you switch polarity on one end and compare tariffs
with the war on drugs, you get closer. Both are at least in part an attempt
to protect turfs. 

Anyway, this wasn't the comparison I had in mind. What I had in mind is
that the arguments for both tariffs and the war on drugs are mostly fueled
by what I think of as FUD: the argument that when you loosen up control,
all hell breaks lose and the world as we know it ends in mayhem.

Gerhard

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