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Look, you can walk around those places and come back the same conclusion for Alcohol. If you walk around those places, you'll find more uneducated people, more

Look, you can walk around those places and come back the same conclusion for Alcohol. If you walk around those places, you'll find more uneducated people, more addicts, more violence, more decay, and so on. It's very easy to conclude 'it must be the drugs', or 'these people are more violent', or 'dumber', but those would be very shallow conclusions. Drugs are a very simple way to hide from ones bleak reality. Getting rid of drugs to deal with this problem would be the same as building more houses to eliminate homelessness. Louis Ck bit, very funny and sad for it's truth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agVmmw2C0Hw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agVmmw2C0Hw

thaumasiotes 13y ago
> Getting rid of drugs to deal with this problem would be the same as building more houses to eliminate homelessness. This is an excellent thought experiment. I think everyone would be basically on board with the idea that if there were suddenly more houses (for free), that would be a good thing. It would be a huge benefit to people renting or buying housing, but I agree with you that the cost of housing is unlikely to drop to zero no matter how much suddenly appears. So, in the analogy, do we think homeless people are being priced out of the market, or do we think they're homeless for other reasons?