I know someone closely who used to be a user, is now clean, and would not have benefited by being murdered https://www.rt.com/news/374158-philippines-duterte-drugs-priests/ …
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Even with scary hard drugs (meth, heroin, etc.) the "Once you're addicted you're better off DEAD" horror stories do way more harm than good
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"But he's going after the dealers, not innocent users" Ask people caught up in our own War on Drugs how that works out
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Anyway I fail to see why Trump and Putin like this guy other than a general approval of wielding unaccountable unilateral power
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Which is, in fact, a surprisingly strong political bond to have
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Read a biography of Mao that included an anecdote about how a pre-political teenage Mao wrote a strident essay defending an ancient emperor
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The emperor had massacred a village for sedition and Young Mao got surprisingly worked up in his opposition to the essay prompt
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"He did NOTHING wrong, people don't APPRECIATE the sacrifices leaders make for them", etc.
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Decades later there'd be the infamous case of the state publishing a defense of the First Emperor during the Cultural Revolution
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You would think Qin Shi Huangdi would be a counterrevolutionary figure if there were any, but nah, he was Good Actually
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Because the warlords before the First Emperor unified China were supposedly worse and totalitarianism was a necessary transitional stage
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Authoritarians love authoritarians, even across ideologies and across centuries of history
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