War On Drugs Satire

The War On Drugs is nothing more than a war on other people's values. If it is anything beyond that, it is simply an analogy of our inability to reconcile our personal differences at the cost of annihilating each other.

So why blame drugs? We could just as easily point to money as being the culprit of violence and corruption in the world. This doesn't even get into the matter of how pharmaceutical companies push their product on an undereducated, unquestioning population without prosecution; but rather legislative, judicial, and executive endorsement.

Obviously a system such as the government, built on money, wouldn't do that. So we choose to fight drugs for the same reason we fight communism, other religions, or other sports teams.

It's a

To even attempt to preserve our planet requires that we assume the latter, even if that notion is misguided desperation.

This is not to say I support drug use. I don't personally use drugs other than tobacco and alcohol, which are very much legal. And if you think you're somehow superior because you do not use these substances, consider the fact that caffeine and taurine are also drugs. Consider the fact that the definition of a drug is a substance which chemically alters your body and tell me if your naturalistic, herbal remedies do not fall into that category. Consider that even the food you eat and the air you breathe is systematically affecting your biological organism.

Who are you to choose what chemicals are legal for another human being to ingest?

And to keep from getting off track, this IS NOT an essay about drugs. Drug policies are simply an analogy for the sort of societal pressures we create and enforce against people engaging in activities we deem inappropriate, even when they are not by definition violent or inherently harmful to other

After all, just because I think that Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or fundamental Naturalism (Science as a religion) is harmful to any given person or society does not mean that I should feel obligated to outlaw it, right?

There will always be conflict, though it seems that our society is intent on outlawing all conflict in a futile attempt, destroying freedom in the process. Leftists and Right-wingers alike have attempted to abolish offensiveness. Whether via banning violent video games, censoring explicit music, or stopping mosques from being built in the vicinity of ground zero. "Vulgar" non-politically correct language, homosexuality, and other offensive acts are being targeted by politicians on both sides of the aisle.

It's pretty clear we want to mandate normalization, but we just cant agree on what it means to be "normal" or acceptable.

This is a fight that will never end. We can't even agree on the wrongfulness of murder afterall. A story published in the newspaper about a beating of someone you don't even know, but who is in close proximity to your home will cause a significantly more visceral reaction from you than the entire Darfur