Comment on Where's my JUUL?

• naeap@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That was not what I meant to do

  I’m not blaming anyone.
  I’m just saying we should focus more on mental health problems, than punishing drug crimes - because drugs aren’t the problem, but how we as a society handle people with problems

  I thought, I made that clear enough with the “trying to function” part

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is nothing about acknowledging the dangers of highly addictive substances which says we should punish their users. You definitely shifted blame off the substance itself. Which is quite odd to me, unless your goal is to encourage people to use those drugs.

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    • naeap@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And let’s maybe try again:

      I think, we’re having a social problem.

      Just like guns can’t be freely distributed in our current society, drugs shouldn’t be as well.

      But it’s a social problem. A gun doesn’t kill someone, a drug doesn’t forcefully inject itself into you.
      They are things, they can’t be blamed.

      We need to work on the social problems, that give us gun violence and drug problems.

      But we should start by taking responsibility.
      Drug land isn’t Disney land, where nothing can hurt you.

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        that’s why I think education is so important,

        So then you retract your statements that make it seem like opiates are something one can safely experiment with. Good.

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    • naeap@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Of course, because a thing that can’t act on its own is a very weird thing to blame.

      People have some might over their decisions - at least in my understanding of a free will.

      I can’t blame something. I can blame a doctor who didn’t tell me everything or a dealer lying to me, but I can’t blame a substance

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