What's to grapple with? I'm all in favor of arresting people for violent crimes, and completely against arresting them for drug use just because maybe they also commit violent crimes. It's not hard.
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In this case, the implication is that the drug arrest prevented the actual crime later
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lots of evil things are effective at preventing crime
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Sure. The corrolary is that one shouldn't expect a lot of crime to drop if you end the war.
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I'm fine with that. I used to think otherwise, and I still think it will drop somewhat, but that's not the primary reason to end the drug war.
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Yeah that's all I'm saying. Libertarian party line isn't that however.
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I think the reality is if better ritual tech is allowed to evolve around drug use it will get less dangerous
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Yeah probably. Do you see that happening with recent cannabis legalizations?
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I favor ending the drug war, moving the effort to property crime, and getting a result of ~0 change in prison population but moderate improvements in justice and trustworthiness of the law.
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Can you explain the 'property crime' thing? How would the dynamics change and end result stay the same?
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