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In the unlikely case that this cool, athletic drug dealer produced the drugs in his dorm room himself, I would agree with your position, but unfortunately the d
by jfornear 18y ago
In the unlikely case that this cool, athletic drug dealer produced the drugs in his dorm room himself, I would agree with your position, but unfortunately the drug trade doesn't start in the dorm.
Do you realize how many truly good people's lives are destroyed in the process of keeping supply of drugs up with demand in America?
What about cool, athletic Juan in Mexico who was executed for refusing to join the Zetas? What about mayor Carillo who was gunned down in an intimidation assassination? What about Jake who died of an overdose in the frat house because he thought drugs were cool?
> Do I deserve to die because I voluntarily used chemicals?
I'm not going to go there, but ask yourself how innocent you really are.
- unalone 18y agoI'm not going to go there, but ask yourself how innocent you really are. I'm not innocent. I'm a human being. I've offended people and made an ass of myself and done things that I regretted. Does that make me somebody worthy of death? (Frankly, if I were to make a list of "things that would be good excuses for somebody else to kill me," drug use wouldn't be in the top 10, because at least that hurt nobody.) What about cool, athletic Juan in Mexico who was executed for refusing to join the Zetas? What about mayor Carillo who was gunned down in an intimidation assassination? That's a good reason to encourage legalization followed by business supervision. Used to be people were killed over alcohol. Now people have turned winemaking into an art, and not many alcohol gang deaths occur. What about Jake who died of an overdose in the frat house because he thought drugs were cool? What about my grandmother, who died of lung cancer? Or the people who die of alcohol abuse? The solution is education. My college has many hard drug users, and zero hard drug deaths.
- jfornear 18y ago> drug use wouldn't be in the top 10, because at least that hurt nobody Unless you produce your own drugs and consume them secretly, that is not true. > That's a good reason to encourage legalization... The reality is, drugs are not legal. You can't go there.
- unalone 18y agoUnless you produce your own drugs and consume them secretly, that is not true. The only people hurt were hurt due to illegality. Who is hurt when you drink wine? Used to be wine was illegal, and people got hurt until alcohol was legalized. The reality is, drugs are not legal. You can't go there. Drugs being illegal isn't hard reality. The solution is to legalize them rather than to stop persecuting the people who are using them.
- jfornear 18y agoI agree with your solution for pot at least, but having that position doesn't condone continual usage while it's still illegal, you know?
- unalone 18y agoMy mindset - one that many other people share - is that you should worry less about the law and more about whether or not what you're doing is moral and good. I'll break the law if the law is bad, without feeling very guilty.
- jfornear 18y agoI agree with that too, but collateral consequences are not to be overlooked. If you break a bad law which, in turn, causes people to suffer, you should feel guilty.
- unalone 18y agoIt depends. If I'm making drugs illegally, and in doing so I shoot some guy to keep him away from my drugs, then I should feel guilty. But if I'm not directly involved in that violence, then my feeling guilty for that illegal process only encourages the people who would use your morality to enforce their own corrupt principles. Not feeling guilt for the things you didn't do forces the corrupt laws to look at themselves and eventually revise.