• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    What works versus what seems right.

    Classic liberal vs conservative conundrum.

    I’d say that doing what actually works regardless of how surprising or weird it seems is, in one word, scientific. I evaluate the results of scientific experiments all the time and you’ve just got to let go of your expectations and follow the data. Data says the opposite of what you thought? Change the way you think. Didn’t get the result you wanted? There a reason why that you’re missing. But follow the data, always. Otherwise what’s the point: just create a theocracy based on what you feel is right and watch it devolve around you. But hey, at least you’ll still be “right!”

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      21 days ago

      what seems right

      A punitive approach to drugs only seems right to the wilfully ignorant. Religion seems to overwhelmingly be the source of that will.

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        21 days ago

        I mean I agree but it’s hard to argue that we’re being punitive by not dedicating a safe space wherein to do drugs. The punitive stuff is everything else.

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          21 days ago

          it’s hard to argue that we’re being punitive by not dedicating a safe space wherein to do drugs

          I would argue that this is very much in line with the punitive approach of criminalisation, it comes from the same feelings of revulsion and delusions of moral superiority as criminalisation. It’s simply another form of punishment: unnecessary, forced suffering.

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            20 days ago

            Yes I agree it’s “in line with the punitive approach” but in itself more of an omission of beneficial services than a punishment.