If the Physicians oath is to first do no harm, how does that translate to politics? Dr. government can do nothing without first doing harm (before we can even pretend that it means to do is good).
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Theodore Dalrymple
On the Legalization of Drugs (Again). Dr. Dalrymple’s Advice, Don’t Do It!
Over on Facebook, there is yet another discussion about legalizing drugs versus policing or other costs. Whenever I find such debates, I always link to this excellent examination of that very debate by Theodore Dalrymple.
Building the American Underclass
Theodore Dalrymple (pen name), has produced some of the most compelling work I’ve read about the welfare state and how it creates and sustains the underclass. If you are still staring out across the crumbling wreckage of the fruited plain, wondering how we got here and where we may be headed, Dalrymple has some very relevant observations. A doctor with the British Health Service (Blimey Obamacare), he has and continues to write at great length about the victims of government largess, and the sorry state of his country as a result of it.
In a recent article in City Journal, he wrote…”The riots are the apotheosis of the welfare state and popular culture in their British form.”