- 29 Jul 2017 14:44
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The idea of having drug use in itself be a crime at all, much less a FELONY in most cases, in my opinion, boils down to an extremely abusive example of human injustice.
First, it's important to understand a key preliminary point when dealing with this issue. That is, we need to understand the fundamental purpose behind what law is and ought to be. Now, I am not a lawyer, but I'll be damned if I'm not allowed to have an opinion about human justice. I am a free man, and I can legally vote. That alone makes me qualified to speak about the law.
What is the purpose of law, in my opinion? To me, the purpose of law is twofold: First, laws need to exist to protect good people from people who would do them harm. Second, laws need to exist to make sure that every individual is treated with justice.
The prohibition of drugs fufills neither of these two purposes. Drug users are not bad people, and the vast majority of users are completely harmless, functional, otherwise law abiding citizens. Secondly, the drug laws fail catastrophically at ensuring that every free indivdual is treated with human dignity and justice. Try to see it from the perspective of the drug user. Imagine how you would feel if you were forcibly taken and locked inside a prison cell for doing nothing except for freely choosing to ingest a substance. Think of how unjust and abusive this is. If you are a compassionate human being who genuinely cares about the welfare and safety of other people, I don't see how you could possibly support such an idea.
Interesting last night I watched an intelligence squared debate in which the motion was to legalize drugs (this took place just one week prior to the debate in which Lawrence Krauss and Michael Shermer completely trounced religion by the way) . My side won the majority of the audience! I was so relieved when at the end the numbers showed that the people supported this position. Public opinion on this issue is changing. People are gaining sense, rationality, and compassion. It's time to end this abusive, costly, and unjust war on drugs once and for all. For the sake of human dignity, please have a heart and legalize drugs.
First, it's important to understand a key preliminary point when dealing with this issue. That is, we need to understand the fundamental purpose behind what law is and ought to be. Now, I am not a lawyer, but I'll be damned if I'm not allowed to have an opinion about human justice. I am a free man, and I can legally vote. That alone makes me qualified to speak about the law.
What is the purpose of law, in my opinion? To me, the purpose of law is twofold: First, laws need to exist to protect good people from people who would do them harm. Second, laws need to exist to make sure that every individual is treated with justice.
The prohibition of drugs fufills neither of these two purposes. Drug users are not bad people, and the vast majority of users are completely harmless, functional, otherwise law abiding citizens. Secondly, the drug laws fail catastrophically at ensuring that every free indivdual is treated with human dignity and justice. Try to see it from the perspective of the drug user. Imagine how you would feel if you were forcibly taken and locked inside a prison cell for doing nothing except for freely choosing to ingest a substance. Think of how unjust and abusive this is. If you are a compassionate human being who genuinely cares about the welfare and safety of other people, I don't see how you could possibly support such an idea.
Interesting last night I watched an intelligence squared debate in which the motion was to legalize drugs (this took place just one week prior to the debate in which Lawrence Krauss and Michael Shermer completely trounced religion by the way) . My side won the majority of the audience! I was so relieved when at the end the numbers showed that the people supported this position. Public opinion on this issue is changing. People are gaining sense, rationality, and compassion. It's time to end this abusive, costly, and unjust war on drugs once and for all. For the sake of human dignity, please have a heart and legalize drugs.