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Originally Posted by monkey hanger
might have been the case a few years ago when people went out on the rob to give em a lifestyle they think they should be accustimed to but a greater number now have been banged up due to stealing due to drug addiction. cannot afford to buy em so need to rob for their fix. not the prison system fault or maybe not theirs either. if a stronger stance was made years ago about the drug question and problems then maybe something would be different. too much of a mamby pamby approach statring in the so called swinging sixties where there should have been a harder hitting approach to it all.
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We cannot change what happened in the past...and looking that way is entirely the wrong direction...it is not the direction of current travel.
The namby pamby liberal approach is certainly a factor, and it still continues.
So, these days they steal to fund a filthy habit, that makes it less painful and disturbing for those who are the victims...no, of course it doesn't and I feel pretty sure you did not mean it to sound apologetic for these 'unfortunate addicts'....or that you feel sorry for them
I do not feel sorry for them. They ruin lives of innocent people, for this they should be punished first...Rehabilitation is a much harder thing to achieve.
The offender has to WANT to change their ways...if they do not WANT to change then you are just wasting time and effort on them.
Drug use is a lifestyle choice. Something that these folks have chosen to get involved in.
Going to prison does not solve this because....well, would you believe it?
These criminals(because that is what they are) can get drugs in prison almost as easily as out on the street.
If these folk were sent somewhere remote, then they would have to do cold turkey...
But, truthfully, you are NEVER going to crack the problem of drugs on the streets while ever there are those who think drugs should be decriminalised.
Drugs are controlled for a reason....they are detrimental to physical and mental well being.
But if laws are not policed then we might just as well not have them