It's not really that bizarre. Everything boils down to human beings acting on human motivations, and humans often rationalize bad behavior by appealing to pret

It's not really that bizarre. Everything boils down to human beings acting on human motivations, and humans often rationalize bad behavior by appealing to pretexts rooted in contrived ideologies. Communism is one such ideology, and the war on drugs is another. In both cases here, the true underlying motivation of the parties involved is to take other people's stuff for themselves, but their apologists, communists and drug warriors alike, both rationalize real harm done to real people by pretending their actions are in pursuit of some utopian end state (which in both cases is an unattainable fantasy).