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DRUG LEGALIZATION
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ARGUMENTS FOR DRUG LAWS
Why we shouldn’t legalize drugs
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Drug laws succeed in discouraging use
Drug use can devastate a person’s life
HARMS TO USERS
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Legalization would increase harms to users
More use, including underage use
More addiction
More illnesses, overdoses, deaths
Less recovery; treatment succeeds only when compulsory
HARMS TO USERS
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Associates of users:
family,
friends,
co-workers,
customers,
unborn
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Victims of users:
victims of accidents,
violence,
crime
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Everyone else:
increased health care,
insurance costs,
lost productivity
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Voluntariness (competence): Is an addict really exercising liberty?
Voluntary slavery: Are we really “free not to be free”?
Mill says no
Analogy:
“give me your wallet or I’ll beat you up”— this is coercion, not freedom
But withdrawal may be worse than a beating
VOLUNTARINESS
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Ignorance: Do drug users really have enough information to make reasonable choices?
Analogy: prescription drugs
Drug education?
KNOWLEDGE
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Cognitive blindspot: Long-term consequences
We are poor judges of short-term / long-term issues
drug use
obesity
savings
KNOWLEDGE
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Offense to others
Moral harm
Agent: “debases the soul”
Others: bad example
COMMUNITARIAN ARGUMENTS
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Social capital
expectations
trust
cooperation
sense of community
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Exploitation: drug suppliers would be using users, profiting from their weakness
Cf. Big tobacco, big alcohol, etc. Big dope?
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Weakness of will
“Knowing the better and doing the worse”
Weakness of will: giving in to temptation
Paul: “I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.... For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.”
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Support: insurance against weakness of will
Lower v. higher-order desires: we may want something we want not to want
Enacting laws can
keep us from doing what we don’t want to do
nudge us into doing what we want to do
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Risk
Some drugs may be so harmful that it could never be reasonable to use them
Irrationality: we assume coercion, incompetence, or ignorance (Mill’s bridge)
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Character
Drug use impedes character development
Society is not just for adults
Laws must help mold children into responsible adults
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WHERE WOULD YOU WANT TO RAISE KIDS?
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WHERE WOULD YOU WANT TO RAISE KIDS?
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Tradeoffs
Other values are at stake: community, virtue, productivity, prosperity, safety, etc.
Increasing liberty to use drugs could place these in jeopardy
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Tradition
Long tradition of drug laws
Society is complicated; we must find best laws by experimenting over long time
Product of reasoned choices
Good guide to human nature
Can’t predict effects of legalization
CONSERVATIVE ARGUMENTS
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