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Re: Tony Martin case: You can't {make up} better criticism of Liberals!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 29 Jul 2003 20:54:17 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
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I think most people don’t do drugs because they don’t want to risk their
lives/health/saftey, not because it is too expensive. Personally I don’t
smoke, drink, or do drugs. The bottom line is that using drugs does not fall
under the category of rape, murder, or stealing and as such should not be
illegal. Now driving while intoxicated classifies as potential murder and
should be punished accordingly. You use the example of drinking, well does
that mean we should outlaw drinking (even though that experiment failed
miserably once and we have the same cirumstances with drugs now) because a
few thousand people drive drunk even though millions do not?
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The problem with drug usage is not the usage “per se”, it’s what addicts do once
they waste all their money. Tipically, the pattern for drug usage is: you have a
job and do drugs, then you lose your job (and income) due to the addiction, then
you proceed onto theft (and other crimes as consequence), and get caught. The
philosophy behind the criminalisation of drug usage is preventive: if it is a
crime to consume, you can be jailed before you do worse things to others.
In essence, this philosophy is exactly the same as criminalising alcohol
consuption. Drinking is even more natural than injecting stuff into your veins,
isn’t it?
Pedro
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