But legalisation would not impose one set of laws for one set of people, and another for another. It would impose identical law on everyone - if you take drugs and don't harm anyone then you don't go to jail. Exactly like the law on alcohol. Which is not unconstitutional.
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There's something wrong with human nature.
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But legalisation would not impose one set of laws for one set of people, and another for another. It would impose identical law on everyone - if you take drugs and don't harm anyone then you don't go to jail. Exactly like the law on alcohol. Which is not unconstitutional.
Quote from nitro:
Friends have invited me to go "whoring" with them. I always politely decline. All I would see is someones' daughter that fell on hard times. I would try to rescue them.
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I saw one of these mail order brides recently at one of my favorite restaurants. She is eastern european, absolutely gorgeous. She is married to some guy and you can tell that she is miserable, to the point where she is clearly depressed. It sickens me. I wish I could marry all of them, bring them out of misery and set them free.
I have heard of countless stories of kids being shown how animals are treated so that we can eat. A large portion of them become vegans when they realize they are part of it, to the point that they would vomit on the sight of beef on their plate ever again.
You see, it all comes down to your own capacity for compassion. The law imo, in it's then thousand year history of wisdom, tries to normalize that for all of us.
What about a woman who likes prostitution and enters it of her own free will? Why should she be turned into a criminal because, in a rather patronising sexist way, you think all women are damsels in distress and incapable of making their own decisions? Do you want to "rescue" male gigolos too?
As for "mail order brides", are you suggesting that marrying across national boundaries or cultures should be illegal? Or that marrying for money, or reasons other than "true love" should be criminalised?
Bear in mind that the "thousand year wisdom" of the law allowed slavery, segregation, and outlawed homosexuality, religious freedom and divorce for most of human history, along with witch trials, paedophilia, torture, trial by combat etc. It succeeded in normalizing that for most of the world's societies at the time. Most civilised people today view that for what it was - irrational and violent oppression of people who were doing nothing wrong. Drug usage and consenting adult sexual relations are treated the same and outlawed today purely because they go against bourgeois social norms too. See a pattern here?
Something is not right or wrong because "that's how it's always been done", otherwise there would be no such thing as progress and everything legal in the past would be acceptable to us today, instead of horrifying. An individual's life is not there for your benefit, or for you to violently force into social and cultural norms that you personally find gratifying. Every society and culture that has ever existed has norms and values that other societies and cultures would find horrifying and evil, therefore social and cultural values cannot have any legitimacy in making moral decisions. Effectively, you are trying to make it a crime for people to live life in a way that you find abnormal, rather than for actually doing something morally wrong and harmful.
First cigarette, humans naturally choke and reject.
First beer or alcohol, people generally hate the taste.
First drug, disorientation and loss of control which brings fear.
Experimentation is natural, but with drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, most people naturally reject the experience...but social pressure gets them to continue and then they become hooked on the chemicals...or trying to reclaim the experience of their first "high."
Or in the case of booze or drugs, they are often used to escape a reality that is painful...
First beer or alcohol, people generally hate the taste.
First drug, disorientation and loss of control which brings fear.
Experimentation is natural, but with drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, most people naturally reject the experience...but social pressure gets them to continue and then they become hooked on the chemicals...or trying to reclaim the experience of their first "high."
Or in the case of booze or drugs, they are often used to escape a reality that is painful...
Quote from nutmeg:
As soon as a child learns to stand/walk on their own, the first thing they do is spin. Walk or run in circles to make themselves dizzy and try to walk. I think people are wired to get a buzz.
at every moment, our entire lives are spent either moving away from pain or toward pleasure. just like amoebas