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**O25YtQnn** · 04-21-2010, 08:09 PM

Drug policy? We have as many places that pot is legal as Europe does. Note: pot is not technically legal in Amsterdam, and I've found that most of Europe is far more critical of smoking weed than the US (having lived there a couple years). This is especially true in Sweden, where pot is often viewed in the same light as coke.

Criminal justice? Death penalty, already addressed. Length of sentences is hardly a social freedom issue, but you have a minor point there.

Family policies? Do not lump nanny state economic authoritarianism into "social freedoms", m'kay?

Welfare state? I've already covered that under economics. High levels of taxation and regulation are authoritative.

04-21-2010, 08:09 PM	#12
O25YtQnn Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 552 Senior Member	Drug policy? We have as many places that pot is legal as Europe does. Note: pot is not technically legal in Amsterdam, and I've found that most of Europe is far more critical of smoking weed than the US (having lived there a couple years). This is especially true in Sweden, where pot is often viewed in the same light as coke. Criminal justice? Death penalty, already addressed. Length of sentences is hardly a social freedom issue, but you have a minor point there. Family policies? Do not lump nanny state economic authoritarianism into "social freedoms", m'kay? Welfare state? I've already covered that under economics. High levels of taxation and regulation are authoritative.
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