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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
This way of thinking basically is against any sort of research on the topic. Mandatory minimums and severe punishments don't deter crime. The US has the highest incarceration rates in the world, mostly due to mandatory minimums. People go to jail for minor offenses and leave prison hardened criminals with no prospects for lawful employment. What you're proposing is both ridiculously harmful on society and completely ineffective.
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Exactly.
What a lot of people don't understand about punishment is that - the more you punish someone - the more the person is going to want to get retribution of some sort, especially if the person feels that the punishment was undeserved and/or excessive.
Issues such as drug use can't be stamped out with brute force. The drug war of the past several decades has proven that.