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The very same civil liberties that protect that heroin dealer from prosecution also protect innocent people from prosecution (maybe even you). Individual rights
by homonculus1 7y ago
The very same civil liberties that protect that heroin dealer from prosecution also protect innocent people from prosecution (maybe even you). Individual rights and strong limitations on government are a Chesterton's fence to many people, it is easy to see the immediate utility of doing away with them in edge cases where they present an obstacle but it is harder to see the systematic protections they afford and the culture of freedom they support.
And again, rampant heroin isn't an inevitable consequence of freedom. We don't have to destroy civil rights to get rid of heroin, it's just that the actual root cause social solutions are a lot more nuanced than sending men with guns to use force. But more force is an easy story to sell to the public, and it happens to be convenient to the people at the top.
- Zenst 7y agoOh agree, about the demonising aspect - but if you've ever lived above a crackhouse, you would appreciate the finer aspects of how it has an impact. Let alone the ways addicts procure money and drugs. Then apathetic support for addicts, many avenues of guilt. But then all addicts are victims is a mentality that plays out, one in which I've seen abused by some addicts. But then, generalisation of a whole group has never really pans well in society. But the real issue as you touch upon is the underlying issues, the drivers for going into addiction and such drugs, that's where support is needed and more so, cheaper for prevention than support later on. Yet both area's are seriously lacking and the whole mentality of fighting the fires instead of fighting the sources keeps playout out.