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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Really? Lets say you have a town and 1000 people now decides to start using drugs.
Introduce executing for using drugs and you claim that not only no less than 1000 people would do the same thing, but possibly even more?
What is the logic here? 
ps: surely that number would not go down to 0, but would go down very significantly. |
Do you want to live in a country where a biological disposition (the addition gene) can lead you to be executed?
Just look at the list of countries that execute people for drug crimes. With very few exceptions (and those exceptions typically are that there must be some kind of extreme case) those countries are all third world shitholes that given the choice, many people would rather not live in.
You might be okay with living in a country where the government can just decide one day to start executing people because they have a problem, but I don't want to. That is a slippery slope. What next? Are we going to execute all alcoholics? How about everyone who is overweight? Let's execute everyone who is addicted to tobacco, or gambling, or sex, or sugar, or anything.
If you killed 1000 people in one town for using drugs do you think that is going to stop addiction in other towns? Hell no. It likely wouldn't stop it in that town. Addiction destroys everything unless it is treated properly. If a guy is shooting heroin he knows he is doing something illegal and very dangerous, but they don't care. Telling them you will kill them if you catch them isn't going to stop them.