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> and they returned home to a country where the drug was illegal. They also returned to their families and loved ones, trying re-introduce themselves to civil
by ithkuil 6y ago
> and they returned home to a country where the drug was illegal.
They also returned to their families and loved ones, trying re-introduce themselves to civil society and many figured out that heroin was not helping (illegal or not)
- remarkEon 6y agoYou (and others in this thread) are helping to make my point for me, which is that personal social structures are paramount for killing drug addiction.
- ethanbond 6y agoI don’t think anyone is disputing that some variation of this idea is true. What’s not being stated explicitly is that if it’s true that social connectedness (ambiguously including identity, purpose, etc.) matters, then it’s also true that our current enforcement mechanisms are probably incredibly counterproductive. Everyone gets the point you’re making, you’re just not following it through to something meaningful and instead supposing it implies something it doesn’t.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoAnd... that ties nicely in with the defund the police narrative.
- arcticbull 6y agoThis has nothing to do with the "defund the police" narrative, Portugal did this 20 years ago.
- Fjolsvith 6y ago> then it’s also true that our current enforcement mechanisms are probably incredibly counterproductive. Fits nicely to me.
- arcticbull 6y agoAh, I see what you meant, I read it as implying that the "defund the police" people were driving the narrative I was referencing, not that the narrative I was referencing happened to fit the "defund the police" one.