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Society already has laws against murder, child endangerment, theft, abuse… Making the use and possession of “druuuugggsss” illegal only further feeds the priso
by flandish 4y ago
Society already has laws against murder, child endangerment, theft, abuse…
Making the use and possession of “druuuugggsss” illegal only further feeds the prison pipeline and is not what a nation state should be doing anyway.
What humans do in their own time to their own bodies should not be looked upon by a government as any sort of illegal at all.
Of course to “help” is the severe lack of mental health and general healthcare, a set of “spooky” marketing tactics decades long, and a for profit industry loving tired, exhausted, scared of prison (and each other) labor.
In terms of what corporations do: fuck every last one of them, regulate them to the top and put in prison the boards, shareholders, and supporters of those corporations who market to children/etc using the very same laws we already have regarding endangerment, etc.
The problem is that when convenient corporations are treated like they have morals and “good humans” behind them and when convenient they are treated like simple numbers on a spreadsheet… at fault for nothing.
- workingdog 4y agoI'm ok with people taking recreational drugs as long as they don't ask for a handout if they eventually ruin their own lives. I'm kinda done with subsidizing other people rotten choices.
- flandish 4y agoI can understand the sentiment but let’s be honest here: you’re more ok subsidizing a corporation’s poor choices than you are a human’s basic needs. People are fine with walmart employees being on welfare and ridicule the human for poor choices but don’t ridicule the very same walmart for choosing stockholder ROI over proper wages to employees. You (and I) are subsidizing every corporation that profits while having any one of its wage earning labor force on government programs. Either we should be arresting walmart, demanding more of the corporation or giving everyone security in housing, food, healthcare…