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[–]zyxzevn 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

It helps to have basic and cheap/working solutions for these things.

Sadly, eduction is often mixed with a political agenda. We are often educated to obey and to follow authority.

Healthcare is corrupted by companies pushing their more expensive solutions, and is not helping to avoid diseases. Just look at HCQ and you can see a huge problem in the push for more expensive solutions and scientific corruption preventing the usage of it.

Prisons are important, but there is also a weird (in)justice system.
There needs to be a solution for young people that get into crime and make drugs-usage legal.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

All victimless "crimes" shouldn't be considered crimes. Like drug use. Or unpaid parking tickets.

Also, legal drugs means actual STUDIES. When politics doesn't interfere, that can mean actual SCIENCE.

[–]zyxzevn 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Good points. It depends on how much trouble you have caused.
And for light crimes, I am for "community service" instead of prison. Like cleaning up, weeding, etc.
Note: Not the combination of prison and slavery.
That can help the criminal to become more part of the community instead of an outsider, and it can teach someone that a real job may actually pay off.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

People resort to crime for only a few reasons, of which these are immediately apparent:

  1. Sociopathic. They have lived an ostracized or violent relationship with society and as such don't feel a need to be part of it. Moreso, they feel a need to be OUTSIDE of it. Therefore, crime.

  2. Economic. They're poor, the economy is crap, they don't have skills they can use for decent money (or feel they don't) and unskilled labor is to them very much like slavery. And rightly so. As such, crime becomes attractive.

Otherwise, you have skills, you want to fit in, even a semi crappy job will tie you over until you find soemthing better. No crime.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

drug use ok but it does hurt us to have people parking illegally

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The unpaid tickets hurt you how? If the guy's car was really in the way, IT ALREADY GOT TOWED. So what's the problem with the unpaid ticket?

[–]Newmug 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Drug use is not a victimless crime though. How many Mexican cartel members were skinned alive so you could have your coke at the weekend? Or how many young men got beaten to a pulp because some coked up junkie thought he was staring at them? How many kids are neglected because mom is slumped over with a syringe in her arm every day? Even if drugs were legal, the problems they cause won't go away

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

SOME of them would go away: jail time for possession for example. Also, them becoming legal might mean less people skinned alive. Moreover, as I wrote, SCIENCE and RESEARCH might help people understand how this harms them, specifically, and perhaps develop some countermeasures, such as for example, MDMA causes brain damage UNLESS it is paired with Alpha-Lipoic-Acid and 5-htp. In that case, the likelihood and severity of damage is statistically insignificant. We know this because MDMA was legal relatively recently, used in psychotherapy, and thus research was performed.

[–]Newmug 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You do know its just the SALE of drugs thats illegal? They can still be produced and still have research carried out on them, even on humans.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Depends where... For many substances, possession is jail time.

[–]72ndGender 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Cartels wouldn't be involved in the drug trade if it was legal. They would go half way out of business if drugs were legalized. As for people victimizing themselves, it's their own choice. Just like with alcohol, tobacco, and obesity.

[–]Newmug 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

As for people victimizing themselves, it's their own choice. Just like with alcohol, tobacco, and obesity.

Which is exactly why drugs should STAY illegal. None of those things are as addictive or as harmful as drugs

[–]72ndGender 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not sure you're right about that. Those things seem to be more addictive and damaging than drugs. Even through the opioid epidemic. But making it a crime for a person to do something with their own body seems like a violation of basic human rights. So I would give that a higher priority than protecting people from themselves under penalty of fines and imprisonment.

[–]72ndGender 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Welcome to libertarianism. Fuck the government.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

about the parking tickets, this is obvious common sense but it encourages assholes to park wherever. Best to have them scared about getting a fine that is enforced. towed? Best to never get to that point cuz if they are towed it takes awhile and inconveniences me. Doing drugs much different, a guy doing that in privacy of his own home, I don't care.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Here in Montréal getting towed takes 10 minutes from car parked to gone.