When Every Benefit Received Is A Right,

Considering The Importance Of Resentment In Our Lives, And The Damage It Does, It Receives Scant Attention From Psychiatrists And Psychologists. Resentment Is A Great Rationalizer: It Presents Us With Selected Versions Of Our Own Past, So That We Do Not Recognize Our Own Mistakes And Avoid The Necessity To Make Painful Choices.

So What Exactly Are The Rewards Of Resentment. It Is Always A Relief To Know That The Reason We Have Failed In Life Is Not Because We Lack The Talent, Energy, Or Determination To Succeed, But Because Of A Factor That Is Beyond Our Control And That Has Loaded The Dice Decisively Against Us.

In Claiming That Prohibition, Not The Drugs Themselves, Is The Problem, Nadelmann And Many Others - Even Policemen - Have Said That "the War On Drugs Is Lost." But To Demand A Yes Or No Answer To The Question "is The War Against Drugs Being Won?" Is Like Demanding A Yes Or No Answer To The Question "have You Stopped Beating Your Wife Yet?" Never Can An Unimaginative And Fundamentally Stupid Metaphor Have Exerted A More Baleful Effect Upon Proper Thought.

Obesity Is The Result Of A Loss Of Self-control. Indeed, Loss Of Self-control Might Be Said To Be The Defining Social (or Anti-social) Characteristic Of Our Age: Public Drunkenness, Excessive Gambling, Promiscuity And Common-or-garden Rudeness Are All Examples Of Our Collective Loss Of Self-control.

Where A Reputation For Intolerance Is More Feared Than A Reputation For Vice Itself, All Manner Of Evil May Be Expected To Flourish.