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Because for every functional self-dosing career professional, there's 10 self-dosing tent dwellers living in squalor in every major US city
by jiveturkey42 3y ago
Because for every functional self-dosing career professional, there's 10 self-dosing tent dwellers living in squalor in every major US city
- empyrrhicist 3y agoUmm... that's much more likely to be opiates and meth, and the criminalization hasn't especially helped with those either. Not to mention, the language you use is really cruel.
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- jiveturkey42 3y agoLikewise I think non-enforcement of drug laws tacitly permitting people to self-destruct in the streets is really cruel
- empyrrhicist 3y agoThe question isn't about whether it's good to just let people self destruct, its whether criminalization helps. Not every problem is a police problem.
- marssaxman 3y agoYou have that ratio backwards, and it's still an exaggeration.
- jiveturkey42 3y agoI didn’t realize the ratio was so high but I guess it would explain why the white collar sector doesn’t accomplish anything anymore
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- omginternets 3y agoI certainly agree that the failure modes of addiction, homelessness and toxicity are worth avoiding.