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Unilaterally taking heroin away from individuals (especially without investing in the necessary support structures) is also a wrong and doomed strategy (I think
by flangola7 3y ago
Unilaterally taking heroin away from individuals (especially without investing in the necessary support structures) is also a wrong and doomed strategy (I think everyone here is familiar with the abject disaster that was the War on Drugs), so that's not very encouraging.
Government does have a place here, but it's in the form of banning hyperoptimizing attention/advertising algorithms and other business models that rely on precision crafted human manipulation, not micromanaging as a parental stand-in.
- tgv 3y agoBut it's not a reason to just keep supplying addicts with heroin, which is the implied laissez-faire solution of the parent comment. > the War on Drugs That's not a one-dimensional topic, and in the case of social media, the suppliers are very, very well known.