Best of both worlds: Prosocial behavior drives out antisocial

Abstract

Antisocial behaviors are addictive, self-destructive, and harmful to others. People who choose to partake in antisocial behaviors rather than prosocial behaviors are negatively affecting themselves and the community around them. Prosocial leaders make prosocial decisions and “do good” by reducing antisocial behaviors. Antisocial behaviors such as the consumption of alcohol and marijuana are ideal candidates for sin taxes, to generate tax revenue while curbing demand. Effective sin tax collections can trump the costs to ignore, admonish, prohibit or prosecute sin. The legalization and taxation of marijuana and other illicit substances and addictive antisocial behaviors is a moral, sustainable prosocial policy decision. Sin taxes curb antisocial demand while generating tax revenues for prosocial activities that serve the common good.

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