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Growing up in a conservative area in the Bible Belt, I once allowed myself to be brainwashed into believing crap like "drug dealers are the scum of the Earth an
by mindcrime 3y ago
Growing up in a conservative area in the Bible Belt, I once allowed myself to be brainwashed into believing crap like "drug dealers are the scum of the Earth and basically pure evil and should get the death penalty."
Later I discovered libertarianism, realized that I was a libertarian, and came to believe in self-ownership and adopted the position that all laws restricting what substances we can ingest, imbibe, inhale, or inject into our bodies should be repealed, and that all prisoners in jail for solely drug (usage|possession|distribution) should be released. I am also now staunchly opposed to the death penalty.
- ciabattabread 3y agoThe Bible Belt people believe a whole bunch of other groups also are evil and deserve the death penalty…
- subjectsigma 3y agoHave you… ever been to the Bible Belt? I promise we don’t very often go around dishing out the death penalty, certainly not to entire groups
- teom 3y agoSo dealing drugs should be legalized and normalized in your opinion?
- mindcrime 3y agoLegalized, yes, although I might say "so long as all parties are consenting adults." Normalized? Depends on exactly what you mean, but let me say that I'm not advocating the idea that consuming recreational drugs, or dealing in same, is a Good Idea or something that's desirable in any way. But I make a distinction between my personal subjective feelings about moral issues, and my standing to impose my views on others. That is, I hold that none of us have any standing to compel others to behave in the way that we believe is "proper" or "good" or "just"... so long as they aren't violating anyone else's rights in the process of doing whatever they're doing.
- anthk 3y agoI consider drug users 'clinically ill' people. They don't deserve prison, but free medical threatament.