\Petition says Colombia citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in US airstrike on 15 September
A family in Colombia filed a petition on Tuesday with the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that the Colombian citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in a US airstrike on 15 September.
The petition marks the first formal complaint over the airstrikes by the Trump administration against suspected drug boats, attacks that the White House says are justified under a novel interpretation of law.
The IACHR, part of the Organization of American States, is designed to “promote and protect human rights in the Western Hemisphere”. The US is a member, and in March the Trump administration’s state department wrote: “The United States is pleased to be a strong supporter of the IACHR and is committed to continuing support for the Commission’s work and its independence. Preserving the IACHR’s autonomy is a pillar of our human rights policy in the region.”
Daily reminder that there is no coherent normative framework according to which a government has the right to criminalize your access to or use of drugs, medical or otherwise.
This isn’t a matter of ideology. It is a matter of moral fact. Not that anyone cares about ethics, I’m just saying.
Buuuuuuuulshit
There are various “coherent normative frameworks” aka good fucking reasons why a government has the right to restrict access to certain drugs, or any other material.
What? You think that artificially enriched plutonium should also freely be available, maybe?
Are you a sovcit or are you severely high?
“Enriched plutonium” is not a drug. (wtf)
Again. There is no coherent moral framework that anyone has ever concocted to justify criminalizing your use of drugs, medical or otherwise. No arguments exist in defense of this strange practice (which appears culturally rooted in Puritanism or well-meaning paternalism).
If you have such an argument, please publish it in one of the philosophy journals. There’s no Nobel prize for philosophy, but a bunch of fusty academics will be very impressed with you.
EDIT: I imagine if you had a magical “drug” whose ingestion could somehow make you explode and injure others, then its access could be reasonably restricted.
I mean you could make a for the good of society arguments like we do for helmet and seat belt laws. But then you would have to grapple with alcohol which is way more destructive to society than practically all the other drugs combined.
All our empirical evidence shows that the criminalization of drugs makes society worse. It creates drug cartels, incites crime, fills up our prisons with victims (whose lives it ruins), and balloons law enforcement budgets.
forgive me, but what does this mean “no coherent normative framework according to which a government has the right to limit your access”? That doesn’t parse for me. Do you mean there is no basis in common law for declaring certain chemicals or molecules as illegal for a civilian to purchase or posses, or what exactly?
Justifying something — a law, for example, or the civic organization of a nation state — requires a moral standard. For example, laws against slavery can be justified by pointing to harms or rights violations (or whatever framework you have for making ethical judgements). Most people rely on their intuitions, but ethics is a formal system — a bit like mathematics, actually. Such a system has to be consistent to be meaningful (this is called the principle of explosion).
Anyway, many such normative systems have been proposed. Utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics are broad examples.
None of these contains a mechanism to justify a governing body’s criminalization of drugs.
Specifically,
Etcetera.
He is just saying:
It is YOUR choice to drink too much. To smoke too much, to get high on heroin, to do coke. To eat fatty sugary foods. It is your body, your temple. Not that of the government.
He is not talking about a law framework, he is talking about a moral framework. What right do YOU have to tell me what I can and cannot do when my actions can only hurt myself?
To take this one step further: All narcocrimes come from one simple fact: BECAUSE it’s illegal, the possible profits are so vast that any risk becomes acceptable to the Narcos.
Make it legal. Regulate it. Like we did with smokes and alcohol. Slap a 16/18+ sticker on it, add some tax.
We learned this during the prohibition, the gangster era. But for some reason or another we still use that proven False logic when it comes to narcotics.
Make something which people want illegal and there will be uncontrollable crime. That crime will harden. This (the current path of the us government) is not a solution, it is an escalation. There will be a response.
But your actions can harm others. Drunk drivers kill people every day, people high on heoin and coke lose control of themselves and hurt people too.
Notice we criminalize drinking and driving not drinking. The puritans tried the latter, and it worked out exactly how you would expect.
It was already a crime to impale children but most people still agree banning lawn darts was a good idea.
Ah I see, so sort of like; if the cure is worse than the disease, there is no moral basis for applying the cure?
Pragmatism is one way to justify policies (seat belt laws infringe on your autonomy, but they make society quantifiably better). Unfortunately, criminalizing drugs makes society worse.
Many of the downsides of drug abuse are a direct consequence of such criminalization: addicts unable to seek medical treatment and having their lives ruined, communities torn apart by drug cartels and police violence.
totally agree, they should all be regulated and taxed and the quality assured by law. The same as any other potentially-dangerous item you might want to buy. Works just fine for weed where I live, and it completely blew the bottom out the black market and everything that entails. We’re doing mushrooms next and no reason to stop there.
Honestly sounds like the stoner version of a sovereign citizen. Lemmy might have a few too many of them.
I don’t do drugs. It’s worse than that. I study metaethics.
Well I will privately admit that I’m way into the idea of a stoner sovcit lol I might be more than half of one of those myself. Cognitive freedom, and my right to add or remove things, including chemicals, to my body, as I see fit, is basic mental and bodily autonomy. But all the being said I still have no f’ing clue what this guy is on about so I’m hoping for some clarity lol.