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Originally Posted by noidea
Drugs discussion:
If someone commits a serious crime while on drugs, he or she would probably have done so anyway sooner or later, so should we forbid everything that may increase aggressiveness as well(which would mean millions of songs, movies, books and games)? That's just the same.
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A game or a movie doesn't cut away the anxiety or the judgment someone has because it doesn't directly messes with brain chemicals. Drugs do that. I can't believe you even compare both. It's completely different to say you read a book and get influenced by it (the book can't be necessarily blamed) with something you took that directly messed with your attention, decision and judgement capability to influence you directlyto do something terrible. Also, drugs can directly cause hallucinations and dellusions in a state called delirium which can lead to a psychoaggressive and harmful state in which the person can either suicide themselves or kill someone. TV and games can't do that. Your examples can't be compared at all.
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Originally Posted by noidea
And as far as I know, the allowed drugs in the netherlands(I think it was that country...) are not a big problem at all.
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That's not what I have been reading about over the news to be honest. I've heard netherlands is starting to face a lot of problems and consequences because of that, because, because of the leniency, it is sort of becoming a resort to attract people to prostitution (which is openly allowed in some places there) and drugs, generating a "tourism" directed to that, which is starting to run out of control.