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i'll never cease to be amazed that the american public is afflicted with such innumeracy that a story like that seems credible.



I think you'll find that Ben is neither American nor competent to live outside of a guardians care.

Americans believe such contrivances because they are made to believe them. It's easier for the US gov't. to act, in an otherwise deplorable manner, on things like drugs or pornography if there is public consensus that these are huge terrible monsters that need to be stopped.