After your headline "Lager flouts" (The Argus, August 19), am I alone in thinking that the city-wide drinking ban is doomed to miserable failure?
The whole idea was ill conceived from the start because it is indiscriminate in its impact and does not distinguish between bad and good cases.
If the police had the resources to enforce it properly, maybe that would deter the few hardened drinkers but I doubt it.
In the long run, the effect of such a rule is to punish the rest of us for the actions of a minority.
Such rules, because they can never be properly enforced, bring the legislative and political processes into disrepute.
Therein lies the real harm.
-Jeffrey Elson, Hove
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