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> why do they still think it's OK to ruin the life of some twenty-something selling cocaine to his friends I think they think that he’s ruining their lives and
by boogies 6y ago
> why do they still think it's OK to ruin the life of some twenty-something selling cocaine to his friends
I think they think that he’s ruining their lives and hope to deter him.
But I think the view that there’s no limit to how badly his life can justifiably be ruined (or ended) is receding, there was multi-partisan (& independent) support for the First Step Act. And I think many reasonable people across spectrums could agree on more steps like the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, but some politicians love to laser focus on racial tensions and divide them.
(Edit: expanded second sentence)
- standardUser 6y ago"I think they think that he’s ruining their lives and hope to deter him." Yeah, that's the War on Drugs in a nutshell. People imposing life-ruining penalties on strangers because they are afraid "something bad" might happen. But as decades of embarrassing failure have taught us, the "something bad" is far more likely to be a consequence of the laws than the drugs.
- boogies 6y agoPolitics in a nutshell. Rights, checks, and balances can go out the window because something bad might happen. Eurasia or Eastasia will end the world. Five times as many civilians as died on 9/11 must be secretly killed because something bad has happened. The messenger who told of those 15,000 hidden deaths must be killed because he shone the best disinfectant on our allies Eastasia as brightly as he did on our eternal enemies from Eurasia before, and caused the world to end for four years.