08-27-2006, 01:58 PM
Quote:One of the problems with your scenario is that it does begin with an illegal act before you teeter into fantasy.
This kind of line of argument belongs with the same assinine assumptions as "She wanted it - she shouldn't have been in that area of town - shouldn't have dressed that way" and "he did it because he was black".
You really don´t get the point he?
Anyway, because this is probably because of my non perfect english, I will explain it a bit better.
Your government has chosen that smoking mariuana is illegal (I probably don't have to explain that this law has been made solely to make drug dealers rich, and for that reason is stupid) but has difficulties in finding the right punishment.
For a biljonair who lives in a mansion or ranch, protected by security guards etc. it does not really matter what comes of prisoners...for the normal american however it is quite important.
I will not say that someone cannot be blamed because............ The point is however that your government creates large quantities of violent criminals by giving poor idiots that got caught for a (very) minor offence.
Maybe you can find it fair that the get put in prison for an absurd time, that's fine with me, everybody has right on his own opinion, however it will in no way contribute to safer streets.