No philosophical noodling. We should execute more people involved in the drug trade (within constitutional limits).

Executing people almost never works. You can't kill everyone and the higher-ups will never run out of expendable street-level dealers. The lure of lots of easy money is too strong.

What places have gone hog wild executing drug dealers and not found a reduction in drug use?

It causes a reduction, but it doesn't remove drugs, and you end up killing mostly people who only ended up in drugs because they were desperate, poor, or mentally ill.

Then execute the higher ups. We used RICO to break the mafia, no reason we couldn’t do it to the drug traffickers.

You’re just saying it’s not possible to have an orderly society and enforce the law, which I don’t believe. If you compare say San Francisco to Singapore, it’s hard not to conclude that permissiveness increases disorder while enforcement decreases it.

Man keeps telling you, quite clearly, exactly what he believes, and you refuse to believe him:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35367591

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And why would that be bad? People actively in the drug trade are profiting off the misery of others and the degradation of society. There is a host of associated crimes that occur due to drug-use and in places where drugs and drug-abusers are prevalent.

If people in a society vote to deal with this issue, and their solution is to execute people in the drug-trade, why is that bad? Why is Rayiner's legitimate opinion being considered illegitimate by you?

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