This is getting down voted but I don't think that's fair, it's not off topic. Trump said yesterday he's in favor of the death penalty for drug dealers because they are responsible for the death of others. It's a fair question to ask if there should be a distinction between street dealers and these doctors and executives.

> they are responsible for the death of others

Are they? Those others knowingly and voluntarily took those drugs.

Addiction is not voluntary.

Addiction is a possible effect of willingly taking drugs (as the person before you was stating). I'm not saying that people don't have demons and everyone has their own way of coping, but you need to take drugs to be addicted. That first step is taken willfully.

Funny enough, if I buy heroin on a street corner, the addiction is voluntary. If I get prescribed opioids and the doctor who I trust ensures me it's the right thing on my situation, I wouldn't call all cases "voluntary addiction".

Edit: I can buy a damn gun when I'm 18, but have to be 21 to drink beer and will never be allowed to buy LSD which is pretty safe and not addictive. WTF?! I blame religion and Puritan nut jobs.

Addiction is not voluntary, but addiction is a known, likely side-effect of many drugs. That first step is, to a large extent, voluntary (in most cases).

Sorry... but you're wrong. There are NA, AA, CA, CMA, HA and every other support group with an "A" you can think of that will help you in every step of the way, all you have to do is ask. If you want to get clean, you can and will get clean. Will it be a struggle? Sure it will, it will be the worst thing you will ever go through in your life, but you can and will get clean if you desperately want to. Yes... I went through it, and, yes it sucked, but I'm over 2 years, so, Yes, it can be done.

Bottom line is there are two people who I see who don't want to get clean: 1) the people that will never accept responsibility and want to blame everyone else for their problems. 2) the people who really don't have a desire or want to get clean. At least the second group is being honest with themselves and everyone else.

Many addicts have overcome their addiction. As far as I know, none of them succeeded by blaming others. They succeeded by taking responsibility.

Trump would be able to become friends with the president of Philippines Rodrigo Duterte!

Since the doctors can bribe him, we know what the answer is.

Trump is the President, not a King. This doc has been convicted and was sentenced based on the laws in place when he commuted the crimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law and all. Also Trump cannot force the US Congress and Senate to pass the laws. Or the courts to judge that this is compatible with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruel_and_unusual_punishment

The question is whether he would support it, not whether he would enact it by decree.

Yes, exactly. And I think we already know that the answer is no, he wouldn't support it. Trump has a very childish perception of the world, and a doctor undoubtedly does not fit his mental image of the drug dealer stereotype.

It's almost like politicians manage their perception and image in strategic ways where they lull their enemies into being emotionally caught up with minor character flaws rather than the tactics and orientation of their actions.

The smugness of people against Trump is even more worse than the smugness people had against George W.

They're not idiots. They're sharks who have a very clear aptitude at manipulating people and public perception. It's very bad strategy, and very human, to ascribe to your opponents victories as "luck" and to ascribe their mentality as "dumb".

I agree with you when it comes to most politicians, but I’m pretty sure Trump is actually dumb. He’s the only person I’ve ever seen contradict himself three times in a single sentence. When he speaks, he almost never displays any indication that there’s any understanding of the subject at hand.

W had a superficial dumbness that was largely cultivated. Beneath that he had at least a basic understanding of the issues.

Do you think he cares about you the coherence of his statements when they provoke a strong emotional reaction from a dumb population addicted to emotionally reacting and addicted to signaling alliegence to some vague social grouping?

You're taking his bait superbly by thinking that the truth wins you the game of democracy. To call him "dumb" is to severely underestimate the strategies potential president have used in their rise to power. Or in other words, did calling him an idiot get your side any concessions, any retaken ground?

Instead of taking Trump's bait, I'd highly recommend reading Robert Caro's books on Lyndon B. Johnson. You'll never look at politics the same way again.

Are you under the impression that I’m calling him “dumb” as some sort of political strategy? I’m just describing the facts as I see them. Pointing out that it works for him is not any sort of argument against what I’m saying.

Of course his dumbness has appeal. That’s why he won. That doesn’t mean he’s not an idiot.

Your facts is what he says to the public. That's not a "fact", that's taking politics at face value. I told you, such men are sharks. Not merely the men you back on your own political aisle.

I told you to read Robert Caro's series on Lyndon B.Johnson because it opens your eyes to the political process. Do you think Johnson campaigned as a Roosevelt man because he liked Roosevelt? Hell no, he was an opportunist.

I still don’t get what about this is supposed to contradict what I’ve said. And there’s plenty of evidence for Trump’s idiocy from stuff that wasn’t supposed to be public.

> Trump is the President, not a King

Who will tell him though?

Whether or not he supports something is completely irrelevant to if he can force something to happen or if it's Constitutional. Trump has supported unconstitutional positions in the past, it's not out of character.

If I were Trump, I would make a penal colony on one of our pacific atolls and then drone strike him, that would align with existing executive power.

Didn't we declare a "War on Drugs", so that would make drug dealers enemy combatants and subject to tribunals and gitmo.

I should have been Alito.

This attitude toward justice is exactly why you're not Alito.

My bad, more of a John Yoo kinda guy.

> Trump is the President, not a King.

He'd make a bloody awful King, by any measure. It's bad enough that he's a President.

I don’t know about Trump, but I’d be perfectly fine sending him to his execution if I was on his jury.