Word: arguments
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Inadmissible Evidence. His statement had the ring of truth to it. However, there is an even more compelling argument against his being the appointed executioner for any planned operation. Anyone with even a cursory insight into Jack Ruby's character could not help realizing that he was a violently unpredictable man. As the Warren Commission noted, "Ruby was regarded by most persons who knew him as moody and unstable-hardly one to have encouraged the confidence of persons involved in a sensitive conspiracy...
There is one argument for favoring the "organization" of crime--the one about "internalizing" some of the costs that fall on the under-world itself but go unnoticed, or ignored, if criminal activity is decentralized. The individual hijacker may be tempted to kill a truck driver to destroy a potential witness, to the dismay of the underworld, which suffers from public outrage and the hightened activity of the police. A monopoly or a trade association could impose discipline. This is not a decisive argument, nor does it apply to all criminal industries if it applies...
...would be too competitive for any organized monopoly to arise.) If narcotics were not illegal there could be no black market and no monopoly profits; the interest in "pushing" it would not be much greater than the pharmaceutical interest in pills to reduce the symptoms of common colds. This argument cannot by itself settle the question of whether (and which) narcotics (or other evil commodities) ought to be banned, but it is an important consideration...
...when any restaurant or bar or country club or fraternity house can provide tables and sell fresh decks of cards, it is hard to see how gambling can be monopolized any more than the soft-drink or television business, or any other. Even the criminal-skilled-labor argument probably would not last once it became recognized that the critical skills were in living outside the law, and those skills became obsolete with legislation...
...still think gambling is a sin, and try to eliminate it; we should probably try not to use the argument that it would remain in the hands of criminals if we legalized it. Both reason and evidence seem to indicate the contrary...