Too facile, and adding epicycles. Now add another one "...and if you let your kid's teeth rot out bc you don't help her brush because you're on meth..." and "...and if you don't feed them because..." and...https://twitter.com/Melhyphen/status/948998820310011906 …
This is a perfect example of the epicycles / No True Scotsman I was talking about:https://twitter.com/onefiftyfivemm/status/949003438540521472 …
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How about this? Drugs are maybe OK for some people, and are very bad for other people, with large negative externalities. We shouldn't prohibit drugs not because "they're victimless", but because prohibition creates even MORE victims. (and also gov doesn't have the authority)
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Or, you're making an allowance for sloppy thinking. Mitigating and aggravating factors already influence judicial calculus and don't by themselves follow to the invention of new crimes.
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