Dilbert’s Scott Adams:
Blog reader Diana W. wrote to opine that the sentence for attempted murder should be the same as the sentence for successful murder. Otherwise we’re just rewarding incompetence.
There are a lot of laws that don’t make sense to me. For example, if I were king, I’d make attempted suicide punishable by death. That’s a win-win scenario.
I’m also not clear as to why gambling is legal in a few specific places within a country and not others. It seems to me that if the main complaint about gaming is that some people will gamble away their mortgage money, isn’t it even worse if they have to pay for gas to drive to a distant casino?
I’m also confused as to why potentially dangerous drugs are illegal. I assume the reasoning is that it will keep people from hurting themselves. The penalty for attempting to hurt yourself is that you are sent to prison where a guy named Chainsaw punches out your front teeth and rents you to the Aryan Brotherhood for parties. After about 15 years of that, you’ll think twice about trying to hurt yourself.
I also think that prostitution should be legal, but only provided via vending machines. That way you don’t have to see the person providing the service. He or she or it would be inside the vending machine. Don’t make me draw you a picture.