• Paragone@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    in all cases?

    I knew a guy who got tweens hooked on crack, for fun…

    He’s dead, now, but sometimes one has to wonder if there shouldn’t be more-immediate, harsher, enforcement, for some crimes…

    ( I’m considering the difference between clean-room principles, vs actual-on-the-ground situations, involving real fucked-up-human-reality: sometimes harsh correction seems to be required.

    I know that now there are people who are not allowed to leave prison because they’re too-much threat to the population, in some places…

    also, it depends on one’s culture, doesn’t it?

    In the West, maybe some drugs are culturally OK, & others are not…

    & in other cultures, the configuration is different…

    We seriously hold that Western moral-assumptions are universal, still?

    Has our “White ego” or “British Empire ego”, or whatever it ought be called, still so much “centrality” that it cannot understand self-determination of other-cultures?

    I’m only using the British Empire example because it was the empire before the US Empire, btw.

    I hold that executing people for drug-trafficking is daft … but then I read about the gang-ruled portions of Mexico … and wonder … how can trafficking be dis-entangled from all the other-crimes involved in organized-crime?? )

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