Does the issue of drugs make the left right and and the right left?
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Sorry I figured that might help. If you read it it through it explains how the left-right political spectrum is out-dated as one can hold right wing economic beliefs while also holding non-authoritarian beliefs and vice versa. Thus an extra dimmension is needed, going verticaly from complete authoritarian to liberal, creating a compass.
Azrael
circling Airstrip One
Drugs do indeed flip Left and Right positions on their head. The modern free-market right, preaching individualism and personal choice, have every reason to legalise narcotics. But humans aren't consistent and the nasty line in social control conservatism has always entertained bubbles to the surface like a bad fart.
Prohibition has nothing to do with harm reduction: Peter Hitchens is a rare voice of honesty: "The war against drugs is a moral crusade or it is nothing." It's idealism of the worst kind, completely divorced from the consequences of its actions. People on diamorphine are not usually violent. They are a low risk to society at large. I couldn't give a damn about whether they're "sinful".
The government has no place making you a better person, and only a fool hands it the power to try. All the evidence I've seen suggests legalising drugs does far less harm than their prohibition. The paradox of prohibition is this: it increases drug use. By making drugs so profitable it increases the incentive to deal them, and acquisitive crime to pay the exorbitant mark-ups skyrockets. This is what an unregulated free market looks like. Witness, right-wing libertarians, and despair.
Legalise them, but let GPs prescribe them. I doubt anyone will feel much better being mugged by someone desperately trying to pay the markup for Smack-and-go brand heroin.
Prohibition has nothing to do with harm reduction: Peter Hitchens is a rare voice of honesty: "The war against drugs is a moral crusade or it is nothing." It's idealism of the worst kind, completely divorced from the consequences of its actions. People on diamorphine are not usually violent. They are a low risk to society at large. I couldn't give a damn about whether they're "sinful".
The government has no place making you a better person, and only a fool hands it the power to try. All the evidence I've seen suggests legalising drugs does far less harm than their prohibition. The paradox of prohibition is this: it increases drug use. By making drugs so profitable it increases the incentive to deal them, and acquisitive crime to pay the exorbitant mark-ups skyrockets. This is what an unregulated free market looks like. Witness, right-wing libertarians, and despair.
Legalise them, but let GPs prescribe them. I doubt anyone will feel much better being mugged by someone desperately trying to pay the markup for Smack-and-go brand heroin.
subversplat
writer of wrongs
Dear god! I wonder why nobody has yet created a handy online quiz to place oneself on such a compass?Kripcat said:
Edited to add: Oh, you actually did post a link to the political compass
chainsaw cat
Tea. Biccies. Happy now?
Kripcat said:
Christ I'm more lefty/liberal than I thought... 3 up from bottom left, one in.
Ghandi? Fucking Nazi.
Idaho
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The political compass gets posted up on the board somewhere about once a month for the last 4 years. And is generally considered fairly useless. It was created by american capitalist libertarians and hence reflects their take on the world.Kripcat said:
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