Those in favor of ending the Drug War (I count myself tentatively in the camp) need to grapple with things like thishttps://twitter.com/RMConservative/status/1000095621817229323 …
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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very much not - our law actively prevents stuff like that from happening
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Don't want to pester you but could you give examples of that even with cannabis legalization?
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Hooray! Our precrime false positive rate is down to a mere 23% !! Excellent work, comrades.
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This goes along with my theory that the Drug War has more or less functioned as a catch-all ‘Get troublemakers off the streets’ war. It’s not wrong to observe that once it’s gone, that leaves a troublemaker glut - or to wonder what the bureaucracy will choose to replace it with.
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Yes precisely.
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Troublemakers can be identified when they make *actual* trouble.
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Ideally! But suppose the existing (non-WoD) legal toolkit is, essentially, insufficient to the task. (Which is probably a big part of why/how WoD grew, after all...) What’s the post-WoD ‘public-choice’-style equilibrium? It’s just not obvious. That’s all.
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I'm not sure I see the problem you're trying to solve, or perhaps I don't see it as a problem.
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No problem yet/not trying to ‘solve’ anything. Like OP, I’m tentatively anti-WoD. Just musing what its end might lead to. The problem would probably manifest (if at all) as a sharp crime/dysfunction increase. It might not! And yes, there are positives from ending WoD too (obv)
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ex-cons can't get jobs and may turn to other crimes
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