What about polution? Things aren’t so bad now but back in the gray triangle days of the rust belt there were plenty of “innocent bystanders” paying for US Steel’s profits.
Clove smokes aren’t illegal, at least not federally. But even if they were, it’s not the demand that leads to violence, it’s the black market. If you ain’t smoking it somebody else will.
I gave up pot a long time ago, scotch tastes better. But that doesn’t mean drug laws aren’t stupid, and that doesn’t mean holding user accountable for what suppliers in a foreign country MIGHT be doing (don’t really know if joint X came from one of the cartels doing crazy stuf in Mexico or not) and wouldn’t be doing if there weren’t these stupid laws.
Your equivalency is all wrong. A drunk driver is actively doing something risky to others. A drug user (assuming they aren’t driving) is not. You’re using way too much contageous sin logic. Somebody I don’t know doing something I can’t control that might or might not (depending on the supply chain) be related to getting me that stuff isn’t my fault, isn’t my problem, and I’m not carrying the guilt for it. You’re waving around that same kind of universal guilt that people used for all Black Friday shoppers (and American capitalists in general) after the Long Island incident, their stupidity isn’t my fault.
Do you really think those arguments is going to work when you stand in judgment in front of God?
Things like steel or coal bring good to society in general, pollution has to be weighed against that good. Exactly what good does dope or other illegal drugs do for society? Other than some medical use it isn’t good for anything but pleasure. Thereby you can’t compare a farmer losing an arm to produce apples for your dinner table or a steel plant polluting to the drug trade.
**Somebody I don’t know doing something I can’t control that might or might not (depending on the supply chain) be related to getting me that stuff isn’t my fault, isn’t my problem, and I’m not carrying the guilt for it.**
By your logic it don’t matter what others do as long as it don’t effect me I take it.
I agree the laws are stupid, the government is responsible for that but I don’t see any responsibility on your part.