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Don’t tamper with food, it’s a serious felony. Unless you’re a multinational corporation poisoning everyone including children. That’s acceptable.

HDMI needs to die.

Republicans aren’t people (although they are human). Blaming them is like blaming rabid animals. You might think this is an exaggeration. Technically, only 5% of people are psychopathic, but the condition is a spectrum. Sub-diagnostically, it’s closer to 30% of the population. Those are the folks happy to ban abortion, criminalize homosexuality, etc. A main feature of psychopathy is an indifference to the truth, moral and empirical, and the suffering of others.

Why would any rational person move to Florida? Lmao.

The Supreme Kangaroo Court of the United States strikes again. It’s kind of amazing that out of 9 justices we have 2 avowed rapists, not to mention several christian nationalists.

And yet we don’t have a black market of “lawn darts.” There are no cartels manufacturing and smuggling lawn darts. No epidemic of lawn dart users. Something about these cases is disanalogous.

All laws are concessions. You surrender some rights in order to safeguard other more important rights. It seems that the right to use lawn darts is not one that people value, unlike the right to eat, drink, and imbibe whatever they want.

Medical doctors agree that sugar is extremely harmful, hepatotoxic. There’s no upside to ingesting it unless you’re starving. Why is it legal? Because,

1. there’s no moral standing for the government to tell anyone what to do with their own body as long as they’re not harming anyone else, and
2. the consequences of outlawing sugar would be worse than the harms of ingesting it.
3. And the same is true of drugs.

Pragmatism is one way to justify policies (seat belt laws infringe on your autonomy, but they make society quantifiably better). Unfortunately, criminalizing drugs makes society worse.

Many of the downsides of drug abuse are a direct consequence of such criminalization: addicts unable to seek medical treatment and having their lives ruined, communities torn apart by drug cartels and police violence.

We criminalize drunk driving, which is the “action that can harm others,” not merely drinking, which is an action that does not harm others.

Decisive empirical evidence shows that the criminalization of drugs makes society worse. It creates drug cartels, incites crime, fills up our prisons with victims (whose lives it ruins), and balloons law enforcement budgets.