Problems with the ban on executing juveniles (pt 1)

[jaguar]

The newspaper _The Australian _ reports that “a group of Queensland politicians want the federal Government to investigate giving an anti-junkie vaccination to babies. The vaccination, being considered by British MPs, would render children immune to becoming smokers or drug users.”

What about alcoholics? Or is that a socially accepted way of killing yourself? Fuck this horseshit, no wonder there's a steady stream of people emigrating to more liberal asian countries.

More on topic, this kind of bio/neuroethics is only going to get more complex, I cannot wait to see how badly it gets mashed in the soundbites. The causation/correlation problems with some of these things (teen driving) is already a worry. I'll never understand it really, we tackle the symptoms when they get in the way but never, ever the causes. I will also never understand why people who happily pop paxil and prozac (or have a few stiff drinks after a long day) think cocaine and marijuana are wrong.