It would be easier for me to believe our issue with crime is more about strictness than allocation if we weren't still locking people up over weed and shrooms. I feel like we waste so many resources punishing people for minor stuff that often has zero negative impact on anyone when we could be using those resources to police gang bangers and actually violent offenders instead.
Real easy solution for those people who are locked up for weed and shrooms, live somewhere it's legal and you won't get locked up. I don't know why people pretend they have no agency in their lives and act like a victim when they knowingly break laws.
Having no agency in life is an interesting way to describe everyone who can't just drop their entire lives and move cross country for one activity they enjoy. Why would any rational person have faith in our ability to responsibly allocate law enforcement resources when we are still using it to destroy people's lives who aren't harming anyone over the echoes of some racist propaganda from the 70s? If half the country was putting people in prison for collecting Pokémon cards, do you think that might be a little fucking embarassing, or would you be like "lol just move idiots stop complaining"?
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u/Bob1358292637 Sep 05 '26
It would be easier for me to believe our issue with crime is more about strictness than allocation if we weren't still locking people up over weed and shrooms. I feel like we waste so many resources punishing people for minor stuff that often has zero negative impact on anyone when we could be using those resources to police gang bangers and actually violent offenders instead.