How does one respond to those who say marijuana should be legalized, and prostitution should be legalized, and gambling should be allowed, because people should have their agency?
After all, wasn't it Satan who sought to take away agency?
I would say, in answer, to look a little closer, and watch much of the argument be flipped on its head.
Read the story on Satan's plan to take away agency. Everybody would have been saved. No one would have been lost. That is not so unlike legalizing drugs, is it? If we make them legal, those who use them will all be "saved."
Satan's plan would have taken away accountability for sins. By legalizing drugs, we would, likewise, take away much of the accountability. If you remove the crime, you remove accountability.
Satan's plan did not win. Instead, the plan chosen allowed people to sin (to break laws, if you will), but it provided that there would consequences actions.
Adding consequences does not remove agency.
Case in point: marijuana. Many a person is smoking marijuana though smoking marijuana is illegal. If they lack the agency to smoke pot, however are they doing it anyway?
So, truth be told, laws against drugs and such do not take away agency. They add to the accountability. They provide more punishment. But they do not prevent a person from choosing to do what they will.
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