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Re:100 years ago, prohibition went into effect by corporate_shi11 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @11:38AM (#21936844)
>"The US..."

Except laws or strongly enforced social norms surrounding homosexuality, race, etc are universal in the human experience and not unique to the US.

Alcohol arguably does "harm someone else" when the alcoholic comes home and beats his family in a drunken rage, or when they lose their livelihood and cannot support their family anymore. It was these real issues affecting people other than just the drinker that the prohibitionists were confronting.

Re:100 years ago, prohibition went into effect by dlhavema on Thursday January 02, 2020 @11:57AM (#21937056)
Or when they get trashed, drive home and kill people along the way...
Re:100 years ago, prohibition went into effect by scarface74 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @01:07PM (#21937930)
It’s not the alcohol. The same person who is violent with alcohol is usually violent without it - even alcoholism is not about the alcohol. There is almost always an underlying issue.