10-31-2009, 03:10 PM
Pete, if you want to shoot yourself full of something that sooner or later is going to kill you, that's your problem. And if you're dumb enough to actually do it, the world is better off without you anyway.
If said substance causes you to go on wild rampages in the street, then it becomes the problem of everyone in your path - it's no different than going out with a loaded rifle and firing it randomly.
I'll consider legalizing drugs acceptable when society holds people accountable for their actions under the influence. Right now drugs are a convenient excuse. You get high on [insert random garbage here], you go out, raise hell, and under YOUR system, you haven't even committed a crime; they won't even try to nail you for the three or four murders/rapes/whathaveyou because you can just hide behind drug-induced insanity and the state has no choice but to mollycoddle you into some rehab program or other and then back out onto the streets where you can do it all over again.
I see it happen constantly in the news already; as soon as it comes out the suspect was under the influence of whatever, it's all sympathy and "what can we do to help them" and it's not their fault anymore. Nevermind if the guy killed enough people to fill a morgue, he's the victim now. At least under the current system that guy's gonna spend a token amount of time in the slammer on drug charges - under your model he doesn't even get that.
If said substance causes you to go on wild rampages in the street, then it becomes the problem of everyone in your path - it's no different than going out with a loaded rifle and firing it randomly.
I'll consider legalizing drugs acceptable when society holds people accountable for their actions under the influence. Right now drugs are a convenient excuse. You get high on [insert random garbage here], you go out, raise hell, and under YOUR system, you haven't even committed a crime; they won't even try to nail you for the three or four murders/rapes/whathaveyou because you can just hide behind drug-induced insanity and the state has no choice but to mollycoddle you into some rehab program or other and then back out onto the streets where you can do it all over again.
I see it happen constantly in the news already; as soon as it comes out the suspect was under the influence of whatever, it's all sympathy and "what can we do to help them" and it's not their fault anymore. Nevermind if the guy killed enough people to fill a morgue, he's the victim now. At least under the current system that guy's gonna spend a token amount of time in the slammer on drug charges - under your model he doesn't even get that.