If It Weren’t for Morons, Drugs Would Be Legal

The Amazing Atheist is currently #54 on the list of YouTube’s most subscribed, but despite that number today was the first time I ever saw a video by the guy. The video below was posted as a reply to another internet moron who thinks drugs like marijuana should remain illegal, and although he had a couple of good points they were lost in his awful delivery and the giant pitfall of defending his stance by way of the bible instead of just using some logic. Watch The Amazing Atheist’s response.

Legalize all drugs and criminals won’t have to steal anymore? Who the hell are you to call anyone stupid if your answer to the drug problem is to make them all legal? Do you think they are going to hand drugs out for free if they do become legal? People steal for one reason; they are broke. The Amazing Atheist even said it himself…

“Heroin makes people criminals because people who get addicted to it can’t afford it and they end up stealing… to pay for their drug habit.”

Do you think these people make just enough money to afford everything they need in life except for drugs and that’s why they go out a rob someone? No, nobody who manages their finances well gets desperate enough to knock over a liquor store. Poor people steal because they could use the money for anything, not just drugs. Nobody needs statistics to see that an wealthy neighborhood has less crime than a poor neighborhood. The Amazing Atheist just took what jezuzfreek777 said and came up with the exact opposite counter point without bothering to think if there was any merit behind the original statement.

Recreational drugs have done more harm than good in the world and to make the legalization even less of a possibility their are the junkies and the jobless hippies ruining it for everyone who has the luxury of getting a bit reckless from time to time. All of the medical marijuana cases in the world couldn’t fight that logic. Alcohol is bad as well, but that’s not the god damn point. Prohibition proved that we can not take something as popular as booze and make it illegal without suffering heavy repercussions and thus we’re stuck to restricting it as many ways as possible (in some states) but never banning it. I don’t care if you want to believe it or not, but legalizing drugs would promote the use of drugs (at least for a short time). And to add, with a country far behind in the economy and in public education, the last thing a politician wants is to do is give critics the opportunity to say that he has made it harder to dig ourselves out of the hole.

The argument could go on for days with statistics on this and that being pulled out of everyone’s ass but it would be all for nothing. In the end a politician is going to have to commit political suicide to legalize any form of recreational drug, and that’s just not going to happen any time soon. Jezuzfreek777 is arguing a mute point and The Amazing Atheist is kicking him down for the wrong reasons. Ignorance is breeding ignorance and I can’t help but wonder why I care to listen to either of them. Perhaps I’m a masochist.