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Society is by definition “forcing” people to carry the burden of other’s choices. You’re drawing an entirely arbitrary line at direct taxation. Why is it “fair”
by fontain 6mo ago
Society is by definition “forcing” people to carry the burden of other’s choices. You’re drawing an entirely arbitrary line at direct taxation. Why is it “fair”? Because society isn’t zero sum. We each give and take in different ways.
- tt24 6mo agoNot sure how much a skydiving soda drinking drug user “””gives””” to society haha
- fontain 6mo agoYour perception of drug users is woefully out of date. The most “valuable” members of society by your metric (contributing tax dollars) are using a lot of drugs. The U.K. upper middle class are snorting so much coke.
- tt24 6mo agoSorry I don’t believe this
- newdee 6mo agoWhy not?
- tt24 6mo agoPersonal anecdotes and bias. I’ve never met anyone successful who regularly consumes drugs as serious as cocaine. At worst it’s marijuana, with minor experimentation with harder substances in college or on special occasions.
- fontain 6mo agoI can’t believe someone with so little life experience would speak so confidently. You don’t know any successful drug users?
- tt24 6mo agoNot habitual and not anything harder than marijuana no. I don’t believe that I have little life experience, I live in a wealthy part of the United States and my circle’s median income is in the 300s, so I think I have a pretty solid impression of the type of habits successful people engage in and don’t engage in
- t-3 6mo ago"Regularly" is doing a lot of work here. Plenty of rich and successful people dabble in drugs. People with any level of wealth who can function normally in society while habitually and regularly using any substance are pretty obviously much less likely to develop a habit in the first place.
- tt24 6mo agoI agree with dabble. That’s not what the parent comment said though
- fontain 6mo agoYou must not be living in the U.K. then. https://theweek.com/health/britains-cocaine-habit-use-of-the-drug-is-surging-in-the-uk-with-alarming-consequences https://theweek.com/health/britains-cocaine-habit-use-of-the...