The pressure to have sex

[Sunless Sky]

I don't know. It's hard to say that some drugs should be legal.

But then again, I think we have to take out our bias and look at the evidence.
Haven't they decriminalized drugs in Portugal, and other countries or places in Europe?
And haven't they gotten positive results? I'm not sure.

It would take away a lot of revenue from criminals - it would help to make crime less profitable, too risky for too little return, and give people less of an incentive to get into it.

Also, if drugs were legalized, they could be regulated, which (theoretically) should make them safer for consumers.

I still think that, as with cigarettes, people should be taught not to do certain drugs.
I do believe there are certain drugs that you're just better off abstaining from.
But we know that there will probably always be demand for drugs regardless, so in the interest of safety and saving lives, it would be better if they were regulated, and we know criminals won't do that - they won't do anything to decrease their short-term profits, or put any work into their "product" any more than is necessary to sell it.

Also hopefully it would concentrate people doing dangerous drugs in certain locations. Like it would be better to have a center where, if people HAVE to shoot up, they could do so in a safe environment, using clean equipment and not sharing, being monitored for overdosing, and offered treatment if they desire. Hopefully that would keep people from just shooting up in the street, leaving their dangerous equipment laying around to be hazardous to others, being unsanitary, or just dying in the street. And again hopefully it would reduce overall street crime.

I think that drugs should be seen as a public health issue, rather than a criminal issue.

Dealers, on the other hand, I have less sympathy for.
Your neighborhood weed man, I don't care about that guy. As long as it's just weed or other soft stuff, I don't see it as a problem.
Hard drug dealers though, I would say absolutely are criminals. Them, I would say, really are causing damage to their communities.

What about sexual deviancy? should that also be allowed and regulated by the government in a controlled environment? Right now, it is very underground with criminal organizations making millions from it.

 

[okidoke]

What about sexual deviancy?

One man/woman's sexual deviancy is another man/woman's fetish is another's kink is another's boring foreplay. How do you define it? What I see on porn sites these days completely astounds me; the explicitness, the quantity, the commonplace attitude to practices that once were abhorrent to even hear is whispers in hard core circles.

 

[TheSkaFish]

What about sexual deviancy? should that also be allowed and regulated by the government in a controlled environment? Right now, it is very underground with criminal organizations making millions from it.

Well, those are personal choices and it's a lot harder for the government to regulate. That starts to step on people's individual personal freedoms, in a way that a lot of people would not be OK with.

All societies require their members to trade some freedoms in order to function. Most people are willing to trade the freedom to commit violence to anyone you want, in exchange for the safety, stability, and peace of mind from living in a society where it's commonly understood that aggressive violence is not allowed. However, I doubt that most people would be willing to allow the government into their sex lives (apart, of course, from the roster of XXX models that George Bush bangs on the regular).

I'm afraid I don't have an answer for that, and there may not be an answer to some of these questions. At some point we might not be able to eliminate all crime, and this might be the best we can do until someone else figures it out.