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Then we should also get rid of the prohibition on ivory- after all, think of all of those future generations of criminals we're creating by jailing poachers.

• arminiusreturns 8y ago
  its not the same thing at all, and your argument is logically fallacious because of it. A person consuming a drug violates no other beings rights. This is obviously not true about ivory poaching.
  • panzagl 8y ago
    The fallacy is defining all crimes as drug crimes, then saying legalizing drugs will end all crime. Might as well legalize violence directly.
    • rconti 8y ago
      But actually, crime IS crime, in important ways. Put it this way; marijuana can be a "gateway drug" without being addictive, because people who are willing to break the law and social norms to do one thing are the kind of people who might break the law and social norms to do another thing; it's correlation in that case, though. To extent the analogy, maybe now the marijuana user's child begins using marijuana because their parents did, but then they move on to hard drugs. Their willingness to break the law and social norms in one way made them more open to doing so in another way. Same thing here; if you create too many victimless crimes, children of 'crime' may grow up to do crimes that actually have victims.
    • antidesitter 8y ago
      > The fallacy is defining all crimes as drug crimes, then saying legalizing drugs will end all crime. But no one is making that argument. You’re attacking a strawman.