Our Drug War Next Door

[jv103]

Damn you! Damn you! Last time I argued about the morality of a culture was with that Adolf Hitler cake post.
Lemme say my Miss America Answer "We should legalize every single drug and then educate, allowing individuals to make choices for themselves. In doing so, we could take a fresh look at all drugs without simply placating our problems by placing the users into a penentenary and pretending as if the users are some aberration. By educating and identifying other problems behind addictions and abuses we could then reduce the demand for such illegal drugs and if not entirely eliminate it, use it within what is safe for society(no violent crimes)-as the individual should have freedom over his/her own life."
The Morality aspect is hard because, personally since I grew up post Enlightenment thought (as most of us under 300 years old have) Morality has always appeared as relative, and constricting. It only goes back to that Lockean question on how many freedoms we are willing to surrender in order to make a social agreement with society.

Where should the moral line be drawn? Well I think we could figure that out if we had a clear view of drugs once again, maybe legalized them all, educated all people, see what happens, maybe for 20 years and go from there.

You do know that drawing the moral line somewhere is an impossible question right?


Moral Line: Doesn't Harm Anyone else Phsyically or emotionally (I know we could say "who is to judge what is 'harm', but for the sake of this debate that is what i would consider maybe an absolute moral within the confines of civilization) This is all I could reduce it to.

If we wanted a system more moral not taking advantage of people, then we would have to eliminate many currently legal things and in so reducing freedoms.

Rocketpig: Morality is such a bitch for me. I wish I knew 'wrong is wrong, right is right'.

what do you think?