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Please don't. It's over the flamebait line and well into trolling (though I'm sure you didn't mean it that way).
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This take is so hot that even the Kelvin scale can't hold it!
You're suggesting we execute tens or hundreds of thousands of people. Do you think that every one of those people would be able to get a full death penalty case? Are you just suggesting a "Judge Dredd" style USA?
Despite what certain people will tell you, drugs don't magically jump at unsuspecting kids to turn them into fiends. Some drugs are extremely chemically addictive but most addictions start as psychological addictions and most of those are either from self-medicating, numbing or for performance enhancement.
And this doesn't even get into why people get into the illegal drug trade to begin with. But reality is much more complex and touchy-feely than a good story about good cops shooting bad criminals trying to corrupt our children.
How is this relevant to anything that I wrote? Besides, EU has lower drug overdoes rates than Vietnam without any need to execute anybody. Why do you think that we should kill people for these types of crimes when looking at the numbers it appears, to me, to do almost nothing to help solve the problem?
> You can treat addiction as a health issue while executing drug dealers. That’s what Singapore does.
Judging by the number of countries that don't execute anyone and have lower numbers why don't we just skip the killings?
Even if drug laws have been liberalised (which they seem not to have been in much of the US), it's been done without the other necessary components.
If you want to try going full Philippines on it, it might pay to look at the results, they don't seem good.