Even Hitler Knew You Can't Repress Ideas by Force

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

Take drug control. Singapore has an extremely low usage rate. It will never be zero, but it's low. They harshly enforce not just punishing drug users and sellers but even the discussion of using drugs. Now look at America. We hardly enforce our drug laws and unsurprisingly our use is much higher. You can suppress an idea, but people forget why an idea or behavior is suppressed and we have to experience the ravages of those ideas until it becomes bad enough to suppress again.

You can never eliminate an idea or behavior. That I agree.

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

The USA has the largest political concentration camps in the world because of its drug laws, so your claim they're not enforced is objectively false. It's also clear the state not enforcing it didn't cause drug use, discontent and technology have. Furthermore, you clearly lack a grasp of the economics and politics of the drug war.

Finally, the USA is a continent empire with vast, sparsely populated locations and huge native industrial capacity to produce exotic drugs by private persons, whereas Singapore is AN ISLAND METROPOLIS FULL OF CHINKS.

I do not take your opinions on this seriously.

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

If the US wanted to stop drug use, it could do it. But then who would work the shit jobs for low pay? More immigrants?