There is no "civil right" to
do what is wrong or harmful to yourself, your family, or your society.
Amsterdam cracks down on prostitution, cannabis: lessons for Victoria? « Robertrandall’s Weblog
Rob blogged about Amsterdam's re-think of its liberal laws regarding drug use (and prostitution, too). I left a *long* comment, a thinking-out-loud about how the factory system of education, coupled with a repression of creative risk-taking and innovation in the culture, enables and exacerbates turning to drugs.
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"Legalization of Drugs: The Myths and the Facts," by Robert L. Maginnis
Maginnis marshals arguments against the legalization of drugs. First, he presents arguments from all sides (pro & con), then skewers 8 myths around the alleged benefits of legalization. Bottom line: drugs do harm and cause social disorder, and since "There is no 'civil right' to do what is wrong or harmful to yourself, your family, or your society," there isn't a convincing argument to be made for proceeding to accept drug use through legalization.
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Boogie: Bleak Street Lifes (PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things”)
Interview with "Serbian photographer Boogie [who] grew up in the war-torn region of former Yugoslavia, documenting protests and the disturbing portraits of skinheads. After moving from Belgrade to Brooklyn in 1998, he started observing New York’s bleak street side of life with monochrome shots. Distinctively, his work isn’t emphatic. He doesn’t judge. He is more reporting on a not so distant universe with a fine eye for detail - and a lot of guts. He showed PingMag his depiction of Brooklyn gang life and junkies." Boogie notes: "'This whole life is a bunch of choices you make and they just made a couple of wrong ones,' says photographer Boogie about his series on junkies in Brooklyn."
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