DISCORDIANISM: NO SUCH THING

[AFK]

i kinda lean toward saying culture
•   Culture?  (a big category, not sure how to break it down)
-drug laws creating opportunity for quick acquisition of stuff and outlaw status

Could you please expound upon this one? 

[fomenter]

the simple economics of illegal + risk + demand = profitable (can get more stuff)
add on the addiction/buyers come to you  (easy i didnt put the wanting easy solutions in my first post i will add it)
and the i am a banger got street cred outlaw status (we luv the outlaws?)
and the competition for the market (turf wars)
and of course the user needing money to feed the addiction (they need there stuff to be happy too) and crime to get it is a natural quick easy solution (also outlaws)
also if you are a drug dealing/using outlaw there is no real barrier at that point from upping your outlaw status and committing other crimes

[AFK]

So how would you change that? 

[fomenter]

i have some ideas on how i would change drug laws in this country and some others on a consumer driven revolution to short circuit the madasn avenue grip on Americas cultural short and curlys, but i think i would need to write a book to explain them in a way that was sufficient, the quick explanation wold be pretty indefensible and full of holes..

[AFK]

you're no fun.   

[LMNO]

Leagalize Meth!

[Telarus]

Legalize Meth From Orbit! It's the Only Way to be Sure!


Seriously though, prohibition on shit like cannabis is ridiculous and causes widespread suffering (MERRY END OF {ALCOHOL} PROHIBITION DAY, LONG LIVE THE PROHIBITION!).

[fomenter]

RWHN i think you are fishing for a

                                            legalize drugs dude cuz it's cool to be high
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type answer (always funny to rip on)

but its not real world useful to help the problem

[fomenter]

not that i don't agree with the libertarian view that it's your body and it's not my business if you fuck it up.
the problems and issues it would raise (and there are many) would need to be dealt with and its not easy to lay them all out in any kind of coherent manner
i am no fun 

[AFK]

Please, give me a little more credit than that.  Yes, I was prepared to debate your position had you laid it out, and I disagreed with it, but surely I didn't assume you would give a banal and cliched retort either.  I can deal with nuance.  

[fomenter]

i kind of like the challenge of trying to Lay them out in a coherent manner and may take it on, but it will take me time

[Cramulus]

I can deal with nuance.  

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just teasing

[hooplala]

Fuck I hate the Punisher.  He's embarrassed of his own costume.

[Triple Zero]

There are lots of murders in the US because, as a society, we tend to be spoiled and selfish. Murder often appears to have one of these as a underlying cause, IMO.

more spoiled and selfish than those other places? really?

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I don't suppose they were "boxed in" with hippies at all because they were hippies? And called themselves "Yippies"?

Ignorance ITT.

Do tell.

Hippies were, by and large, about peace and love - which the Yippies were certainly NOT.  "Steal This Book" by Abbie Hoffman has plans for several types of pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails.  And the term "Yippie" was coined by the press based on their actual name YIP, or the Youth International Party.  They would be considered terrorists in today's culture.

Krassner, one of the founders of the YIP, claims he came up with the name yippie. Not "the press."

He said,

"We needed a name to signify the radicalization of hippies, and I came up with Yippie as a label for a phenomenon that already existed, an organic coalition of psychedelic hippies and political activists. In the process of cross-fertilization at antiwar demonstrations, we had come to share an awareness that there was a linear connection between putting kids in prison for smoking pot in this country and burning them to death with napalm on the other side of the planet." —Source