>>1516583>This is evilIt is
You might be saying it sarcastically but yes it is, the amount of human suffering went up, not down.
It's a common occurrence in this day and age and to be sure, throughout human history. That Mens laws oftentimes are written due to a realization that a particular behavior that man engages in quite naturally happens to be inconvenient or annoying to someone. And it's often much easier to pretend you can prohibit it with the stroke of a pen rather than build institutions to solve problems. And this invariably and historically has always done two things; prolonged suffering and fail to solve the problem.
Drugs boats are easily blown up. Never mind that the drug that justifies it by its very nature can only ever be consumed in micro-doses and enough of it to supply a city for a month could easily fit within a suitcase before being cut precisely due to that fact.
Patrols can be increased and the catch and release policy which refugees and asylum seekers depended on can be reversed, same policy which caused the border apprehensions to increase in the first place. Obviously one follows the other but to point that out seems like less of a success.
Neither of these actually solved the problem. The people are still there, the drugs are still very easy to smuggle in.
But it sure does make us feel good.
