Stops a Beating Heart
How can we Justify locking people up for commiting actions that have no demonstratable repercussions to anyone else? If someones actions compromise the rights of will of another individual then fine, punish them. But if someones actions don't affect anyone other then the person committing the actions, then what buisness is it of the states? I'm speciicfically referring to drug use. I don't use drugs, and I think drugs can be terribly destructive and dangerous, but I don't see how the state can arrest and adult for doing something to their own body. An enlightened state should warn its citizens about dangerous activities, but it shoudn't be allowed to lock people up for doing things to themselves. I do not want any goverment making descisions about what I can put into MY body. An Individuals own body is not the jurisdiction of the state. Although we may find suicide, drug use, abortion, self-mutilation, etc, aborhent, we cannot as an enlightened society make criminals of people that want to do these things to themselves, so long as their actions don't compromise our rights. Because we find something distatsteful is not justification enough for us to deem it criminal.
-moby
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