Lots of people like to complain about the erosion of civil liberties, but what’s going to happen if the number of addicts grows exponentially?
Junkies don’t function in society, they don’t parent, produce economic output at the same level as people who aren’t addicts.
So who fills in the gap from the failure of personal responsibility? The State.
Duh! That’s precisely what this is about; that and crippling whatever might be left of the middle class; they’ll simply drop out altogether.
Addicts?
Have you ever smoked pot?
Its not like that
That’s precisely the problem. I’m referring to “The State”. If idiots were forced to take responsibility for themselves, there would be far fewer of them among us. IMO, drugs should be freely sold in unlimited quantities. That way anyone stupid enough to abuse them removes themselves from the gene pool. When more idiots start dying, they will serve as lessons for others.
Right now we have Junkies stealing thousands of dollars worth of property to hand over to dealers for overpriced drugs that cost pennies to make. The junkies basically act as surrogate thieves for the dealers. The dealers keep the prices high so junkies don’t use too much and keep stealing for small “hits”. I say cut out the dealers and let the junkies die cheaply of overdose/starvation without stealing from us. It happens to rich idiots ALL THE TIME and I think the poor should have the same opportunity to do us all a favor.
Nanny-statism keeps the idiots alive at everyone’s expense!
“Lots of people like to complain about the erosion of civil liberties, but what’s going to happen if the number of addicts grows exponentially?
Junkies don’t function in society, they don’t parent, produce economic output at the same level as people who aren’t addicts.”
We’re going to see two things happen.
The first thing:
We’ll see an increasing number of employers test for drug usage. This will result in a new “underclass” of drug-users, “legal” insofar as the state is concerned, but all-but unemployable from a business standpoint. No one will want to hire them.
The second thing:
In response to the above, we will see increasingly “progressive” state governments (or perhaps even the DC gov) seek to ban employee drug testing as being “discrimatory” against those engaged in “legal behavior”. The government will make it impossible or exceedingly difficult for employers to “discriminate” against drug users in the hiring process, and equally difficult to fire them for reasons that [employers’ claim] are “drug-use related”….