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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
I completely agree. And guns don't kill people either. People kill people. Legalizing all drugs would be a huge mistake.
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This seems like a non sequitur to me. To paraphrase: drugs don't ruin lives, people ruin lives. So legalizing drugs would be a mistake.
How does this follow?
Especially in the context of Undertoad's point that prohibition leads to stronger, more dangerous forms of existing drugs. This is true. Uncut heroin of reliable purity isn't likely to kill you. It may leave you glued to the couch gazing at nothing, but that's no-one else's problem. Its the petty-robbery-committing, dirty-needle-using, over-dosing-from-the-new-batch that is the problem for the rest of us, and this is caused, mostly, by prohibition.
Is this too far of thread? I'm an newbie here...