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> You don't have to embrace anything in your private life. But stay the heck out of mine. Yes, but unfortunately all individual choices eventually start bleedi

by ythl 10y ago

> You don't have to embrace anything in your private life. But stay the heck out of mine. Yes, but unfortunately all individual choices eventually start bleeding into other peoples' lives, no matter how much you like to pretend they are encapsulated. Otherwise alcohol, tobacco, gambling, and more would only affect their users, but as we know they create collateral damage and rippling effects into their respective communities all the time. Your "private life" booze problem could kill my whole family in a DUI.

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AlexandrB 10y ago
What if I told you your choice to support "The War on Drugs" has caused rising violence in poor neighbourhoods, contributed to millions of people being stuck in a cycle of poverty, and helped erode the basic constitutional rights of an entire nation. Oh, sorry, you were talking about collateral damage caused by people you don't like! My bad.
- ythl 10y ago
  > What if I told you your choice to support "The War on Drugs" has caused ... I don't necessarily support the current implementation of it. But I am against recreational drug usage and widespread drug availability (i.e. go to CVS and by meth and heroin, if you want). I think that cigarettes and alcohol, already legal substances that ravage the poor, have caused and continue to cause immeasurable damage to life and property. Yet we do little to address those problems. Once drugs are legal, you'll find something else to blame poverty on ("the government isn't giving out enough free contraceptives and abortion services, that's the real root of the poverty cycle").
alanwatts 10y ago
>collateral damage and rippling effects into their respective communities all the time. Study history, and we find that declaring war on those things increases the collateral damage and massively strengthens criminal syndicates.

by ythl 10y ago

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AlexandrB 10y ago

What if I told you your choice to support "The War on Drugs" has caused rising violence in poor neighbourhoods, contributed to millions of people being stuck in a cycle of poverty, and helped erode the basic constitutional rights of an entire nation. Oh, sorry, you were talking about collateral damage caused by people you don't like! My bad.

ythl 10y ago
> What if I told you your choice to support "The War on Drugs" has caused ... I don't necessarily support the current implementation of it. But I am against recreational drug usage and widespread drug availability (i.e. go to CVS and by meth and heroin, if you want). I think that cigarettes and alcohol, already legal substances that ravage the poor, have caused and continue to cause immeasurable damage to life and property. Yet we do little to address those problems. Once drugs are legal, you'll find something else to blame poverty on ("the government isn't giving out enough free contraceptives and abortion services, that's the real root of the poverty cycle").

alanwatts 10y ago

>collateral damage and rippling effects into their respective communities all the time. Study history, and we find that declaring war on those things increases the collateral damage and massively strengthens criminal syndicates.