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> People and their actions don't exist in a vacuum - we are all players on a team called "society" If you really want to think of it as a system, then the prop
by solatic 5y ago
> People and their actions don't exist in a vacuum - we are all players on a team called "society"
If you really want to think of it as a system, then the proper way to think of drug usage is as an escape valve for societal issues like loneliness, hopelessness, etc. If so, then it's important to legalize it so that it can be monitored and measured; if it's measured, then society's government can focus on reducing that measurement as low as possible by treating the systemic issues and not the symptom.
- username90 5y agoYou do realize that lots of people will hurt themselves with drugs making them unhappy? It being legal for them is bad. You are sacrificing those people just so you can get high. Look around yourself, how many people are fat? That is how well people will responsibly use drugs. A large majority lacks the self control to properly use these substances and the law helps them do it.
- solatic 5y agoI think you're subtly making my point. If criminalizing drugs doesn't prevent drug abuse, and legalizing sugar etc. doesn't prevent abuse, then what effect, really, does legalization or prohibition have on abuse? Your comparison to the obesity epidemic is a non-sequitur. People abuse drugs to fill an emotional hole in their lives. While that does sometimes happen with food, most overweight people in the US are generally happy. The obesity epidemic isn't caused by people abusing sugar to escape unfulfilling lives; it's caused by callous government policy that makes healthy food expensive and junk food cheap. Too many Americans genuinely lack access to healthy options, let alone ones that are economical.