What things do you evaluate ideas for? Different purposes/goals. - Introduction to Critical Fallibilism
Topic: Drug Legalization. The goals of drug legalization are roughly:
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Reduce people going to jail
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to allow people to safely/legally get help
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reduce the dangers associated with the black market and illegal drugs
- Drug legalization would directly reduce people going to jail because people would no longer be violating a law that sends them to jail.
- Drug legalization does help with people not being scared to get help, since they no longer have a criminal label.
- Drug legalization does not help with people actually getting help as the legal status of drugs is quite irrelevant to why people do them.
- People start doing drugs and get addicted to them for various reasons, proponents of drug legalization ignore this and proceed to only focus on methods to allow users to get help.
- Drug legalization theoretically does help with reducing black markets associated with the drugs, however governments implement legalization so poorly that the black markets typically still persist.
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