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RE: Drug War Stupidity Special Edition: The U.S. to Start Executing Drug Dealers?
I agree with the death penalty for certain crimes. World is to soft today and crime is rife everywhere.
I agree with the death penalty for certain crimes. World is to soft today and crime is rife everywhere.
You are entitled to believe however you wish.
I don't think that drug dealing warrents such a sentence.
Think of how many lives they ruin. Maybe not a death sentence for drug dealing but a sentence so bad that people won't do it. I live in a country that is full of crime and have no sympathy for any of them. If you are guilty then you must pay.
It is your right to think that but I do not believe having or using drugs should be a crime at all.
If there is one thing that is truly your own, it is your body. Every person should be able to do whatever they want with their body even if it harms them. This should not concern the law at all as it only affects the individual. I do think that doing a thing like forcing another person to take a drug or giving them one without their consent is wrong and should be a very serious crime, not because I think drugs are bad but because it violates the other persons right to govern their own body.
well using drug is personal but you cant deny the vices it drives people to do.they are well dicumented and u think this is why gov fights hard
You are entitled to your opinion but I disagree. Those things people do are, in my mind, a result of the prohibition of drugs and not the drugs themselves.
Think of it like this: If a person sells cars and someone steals from him he can call the police. If that person sells drugs, on the other hand, what can he do? He most solve the problem himself and that leads to violence but the cause is the law not the drug. The same is true when people who use drugs are told that they cannot work so they may try to get their money by doing something like stealing but again this is the fault of the law.
I suspect that you still disagree with me and that is fine. We all have our right to an opinion.
well said.your argument is right but again you have to understand that the interest of the total population matter. drugs come with addiction and its attendant medical conditions.imagine making drugs legal, almost every teenager will fall to the peer pressure and use it. itbwill be followed by dependency and addiction and ultimately economic waste. come to think of it what really does drug do to the body that is beneficial
I hear this argument often but it doesn't account for the fact that drugs are already available in every school and all teenagers do not fall into a life of addiction. Even among drug users addiction is relatively rare. There were some interesting study on this topic a few years ago that found vast majority of all drug users never become addicted.
As to the cultural and economic impact, the negative side effects are offset by the more open and safer system that is created when drugs are legalized. That is to say, your total number of users may rise but the negative consequences of their use is greatly reduced. They no longer have to deal with smugglers to get their drugs, the drugs are more pure and less likely to make a user sick, et cerera all counter the new problems that a society may face.
One could argue from a moral stand point but morals are personal and no two people have the same moral code.
The question now becomes what should a society value more? Is the freedom of the individual more important than norms of a culture? From my perspective, individual freedom is of the greater importance. Further I firmly believe that freedom includes the right to do the wrong things. If a person thinks it is a good idea to set himself on fire, I will think he is foolish, I will tell him it is a bad idea but I will not use force to stop him from doing it.
I could't find the origional study but this article covers some of the same information.
http://www.thecleanslate.org/reality-check-most-dont-become-addicted/
you are good with your argument.you have preaented a good point though.