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[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

I do give a fuck if that someone then wants me to pay for their support afterwards, or starts going around stabbing people at convenience stores to fund their habit.

And both of those are the fault of government. I shouldn't have to explain why for the first scenario. The second one happens because since drugs are banned, drug addicts have to buy them for extreme prices from gangs or the mafia, from whom they face barbaric threats if they fail to pay off one penny.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

No people get addicted to drugs and it fucks up their life because all they care about is getting more drugs. Doesn't matter if the drugs are cheap or expensive they'll not be making any money because they are doing drugs all the time.

I'm happy to support drug decriminalization and other adjustments to how we enforce it to help stop the exasperating of the problems our enforcement methods are causing. But the very idea that stuff like Heroin shouldn't be a highly controlled substance is ludicrous.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Now you're back to "for their own good".

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Nah for my own good. I don't want to have to deal with a tweaker when going to the shop or having my home burgled because he ran out of money and wants to take mine.

These people not being able to fuck up their lives with drugs is more a nice ancillary benefit to prohibition rather than the main feature.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Couldn't you just learn some social skills and how not to stand out instead of pushing your expensive, draconian restrictions onto society?

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

If heroin addicts could just leave other people alone and tweak out in private I wouldn't care.

Hardly a draconian restriction to keep people from buying heroin over the counter at CVS.

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

Wouldn't tweakers leave you alone if you blended in? Don't social skills really just go a long way in helping you stay and live in the urban core instead of fleeing to the suburbs?

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Guess I could strip down shoot up and join the droolers.

Blending in means shuffling down the middle of the street with a shopping cart screaming at ghosts and occasionally smashing car batteries to get to the sweet sweet lithium inside.