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In for a penny, in for a pound. If you make it illegal, for the sake of being able to throw certain demographics in prison (brown, black, hippies), then you in
by crankylinuxuser 8y ago
In for a penny, in for a pound.
If you make it illegal, for the sake of being able to throw certain demographics in prison (brown, black, hippies), then you incentivize further actions. If you're caught, you're already going away for a long time.
That's why decriminalization/legalization of drugs also stops other crime. Suddenly, $thing is no longer criminalized, so people doing it have no reason to commit crimes.
- panzagl 8y agoTFA didn't mention drugs, it talks about a family where burglary was a bonding activity. Plenty of crime existed before War on Drugs, and it still exists in places where such strictures don't exist.