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This debate isn’t about whether or not these drugs are harmful, but whether or not the criminal justice system’s overwhelming capacity to enact harm against peo
by kingkawn 8y ago
This debate isn’t about whether or not these drugs are harmful, but whether or not the criminal justice system’s overwhelming capacity to enact harm against people is the way to protect ourselves.
- CptFribble 8y agoTry telling that to people who don't understand anything and don't care to try. The people who are OK with a life sentence for three strikes of weed possession because "just don't break the law." That's who the parent poster was talking about taking up those arguments. Yes, the logic is faulty, but guaranteed you'll see it on social media memes and the evening opinionews. And if you don't know anyone who thinks like that, consider yourself lucky, then know that they are out there and they vote in force.
- kingkawn 8y agoNaw, I regrettably have known many folks like that, and grew up around plenty even though my family believed otherwise. I found that to convince them of the mutual benefit of the humane approach required beginning the conversation from where they were at and slowly working our way toward the understanding of pursuing better outcomes through a thoughtful reimagining of our reaction to antisocial behaviors. If you just dump on people and tell them they're wrong they stop caring about the idea and only want to fight you off. So, oddly enough, actually making progress toward convincing people to be humane requires being humane in the doing of the convincing.