re: #447 Obdicut

Big Pharma is against it, for one.

That one I don’t quite understand. Wouldn’t they be very fit to get into the biz themselves and profit from it?

So are the prison unions. In California, the prison unions are one of the biggest opponents of even the limited decriminalization there.

Yeah, the prison industry you have in the U.S. is truly frightening. I do like your ideas about tying “profitability” (or any other measurement of success) of prisons or people working there to essentially less people in prison (although you were talking about recidivism rates), btw.

Oh, well, sure, I guess you can say its the constituent’s ‘fault’ in that regard. But the landscape is what it is, money is in politics in a big way, and most people are pretty unengaged with politics.

So sure, I mean, it’s people’s fault for voting without even bothering to do basic research into stuff. I blame the people exploiting that ignorance and apathy more, though.

I guess you can level different degrees of blame and in that case professional obfuscators and advertisers of apathy are higher on the blame list. But for me it boils down to Kant’s definition of enlightenment:

Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity