Can you give some examples, please?
Please define non-violent. If it only means no evidence of physical assault, then no, I can’t agree. There are many kinds of root behaviours which are predatory, sociopathic and which inflict profound damage on the victims – ruin their lives.
We also need to relook at stopping the flow of drugs into this country.
Many a child molestor obtains a kind of quasi-consent from his victims. It’s still a predatory and life-destroying crime. There is little diffence between such “non-violent” exploitation and drug pushing.
It is our demand for drugs that creates the market. Stopping the flow is impossible as long as people in this country are willing to pay almost unlimited amounts of money for drugs.
:nope:Amen!!!
Couldnt stay away
How so? All I did was take your exact same words and replace “drug” with “sex offender.”
proposition was passed that made it mandatory for drug users to go to drug court. They get put into rehab, have to check in on a regular bases with the court to report their progress, they have to take regular drug test. Sounds great huh… The reality is it isn’t. I sit out in the court hall ways with victims of crimes so I get to hear and observe. The deffence attorneys are constantly telling the drug pushers to tell the judge that they are users in order to keep them from going to prison. The coversations the defendants have are depressing, it is all a big joke to them. You can’t force rehab on most addicts, it is something they have to be ready to do.
Shame is most effective as a preventive measure, not as a cure. If people internalize the values of society to the point where they feel shame if they steal, use drugs, or cheat on their wives, they are highly unlikely to TRY to steal, use drugs or cheat on their wives.
You bet it is – as I say, it’s the scourge of the Ozarks.
Well, they do resort to these predatory behaviours to drive the addiction, but the addiction is a pretext – an excuse – which protects the preference for predatory behaviour. Blaming the predatory behaviour on the addiction is what keeps addicts hooked.
Saying ‘apples and oranges’ doesn’t make it so. Demonstrating that it is so makes it so. In the absence of any demonstration on your part, the poster’s observation stands as a fair analogy.
Apples and oranges are both fruit. Apples and oranges are both round. Apples and oranges both grow on trees.
And will you be willing to undergo surgery under the knife of a person loaded with it? Want to be a passenger in an airliner with the pilot on it? When something becomes legal - it’s an affirmation of the society that it’s okay to do.
Just like booze and all the alchy wife beaters, drunken drivers who kill, drunken 3rd mates who crash their oil tankers, boozers with guns, and alcohol related suicides. Society has laws against all of these which would also apply if drugs were legalized.
condemnation???
Unfortunately, a good many people disagree with that philosophy, and will take legalization to mean “Hey, if it wasn’t good for me, the government wouldn’t have legalized it.”
And we’ve all seen how that stops it haven’t we? Would that go for guns too do you think? Anyone can walk in and buy any type of weapon they want - I mean if they want to hunt rabbits with a howitzer – well let’em – it makes no sense, no sense at all.