In the news today

[Y]

Full, controlled legalization of all recreational drugs in America is the only solution to the drug problem that Americans have created for the world.

[XanBcoo]

Unfortunately we are run by the kind of people who make decisions based on shaky moral arguments instead of practical solutions, and who are supported by constituents who are misinformed and easily frightened.

[Carnage]

Unfortunately we are run by the kind of people who make decisions based on shaky moral arguments instead of practical solutions, and who are supported by constituents who are misinformed and easily frightened.

What? Practicality has its roots in morals and judgement. That's why we decide things, because we have judgement and preferences. Morality is the basis for many people's preferences.

In terms of pure practicality, it could be just as easy to legalize drugs and regulate it as it is to hunt down the several thousand gang members and brutally murder them all. And if you want to say that is morally impractical, well guess what, then youre using "morals" to guide an opinion.

[XanBcoo]

In terms of pure practicality, it could be just as easy to legalize drugs and regulate it as it is to hunt down the several thousand gang members and brutally murder them all

How do you figure that?

I mean, just in terms of violence and lives lost, one option is clearly safer.

[Carnage]

How do you figure that?

I mean, just in terms of violence and lives lost, one option is clearly safer.

I mean that legalizing drugs there will still be an underground economy for them. Its not like cigarretes, where its difficult to grow tobacco. People can make these products in their homes and sell them for cheaper. Also, no matter what drug gangs wont go down without a fight. After already mercilessly killing people, what makes you think they wont try and scare others from not buying from the government/legal carriers?

Whereas arming the nation of 100 million (not everyone but imagine how many vigilantes you could rile up) to hunt down several thousand gang members...like I said, find one, torture him for information, move on to one base, then the next, badda bing badda boom. Although morals then come into the story.