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Originally Posted by Phobia
Drugs are mind-altering substances. I don't really expect anybody to demonstrate common sense, an ability to reason, or expectations of consequences under those circumstances.
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It's not just drugs. Increasing the punishment for a given infraction does not reduce the chances of that infraction being committed.
You are trying to apply a reasonable and logical approach to acts committed by people who are generally sociopaths.
The death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The next fifteen years saw the greatest amount of violent crime in the history of this country at the same time when we were setting records for incarceration rates, both numerically and per capita.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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