[quote name='HowStern']I'm equating a bad decision with a bad decision. He chose to do illegal drugs around his kids. But, yeah, I brought up legality because you did first. You said he shouldn't be held liable criminally but should be treated psychologically and educated.
But he's not insane, he was on illegal drugs. Maybe they caused insanity but that's moot. He chose to break the law and take them.
The fact that you think his irresponsible uneducated decision making makes him the victim is the real terrifying thinking.
No one forced him to do PCP, the craziest bat shit insane drug ever.
The rest of your post was something about "the majority of the replies." I can't speak for the majority.[/QUOTE]You're still doing it. You're claiming that the drug is bad
because it's illegal, which you really shouldn't do.
By that logic, are all Schedule I drugs terrible? Is weed awful? Most people would say it's not.
How about ibogaine? It's an extremely powerful entheogen, but it has massive potential for treating people with addictions to things like cocaine, heroin, alcohol, and more. But it's Schedule I; it
has to be terrible!
I think that, rather than building up this ridiculous social stigma against drugs that is out there (just look at Malik, for example) by waging the costly and useless drug war that our country is shitting its money into, it makes more sense to focus on educating people of the uses and especially of the risks of these drugs and to treat those that need to be treated.
But he was on a Schedule I drug.

that guy, right?
Education like I'm advocating is a preventative measure; if people know how something like PCP will

them, then most would probably avoid it like the plague.
Treatment is to help those who have made these mistakes and to give them a chance to really do better for themselves and society.
Check out this excellent post in the Vs forum detailing some stats about drug use in Portugal after they made drug penalties administrative (and check out the white paper it links to):
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5853939&postcount=73
One of the reasons why things improved so much there was because of the "enhanced ability of the Portuguese government to offer treatment programs to its citizens—enhancements made possible, for numerous reasons, by decriminalization" (fourth page of the linked paper).
I never said he was the victim, but there are better ways to deal with him and people like him than to imprison them for life or to kill them, adn there are certainly better ways of dealing with the drug "problem" in general.
[quote name='Malik112099']yeah..after I read that article I looked at my 2 year old son and tried to imagine what could make me bite the eyes out of his head as he screamed at his daddy who is suppossed to be his protector and immediatley thought this guy needs a LONG and VERY painful death
so, Liquid,

your bullshit treatment which will cost taxpayer dollars for a long time and cut to the chase...this piece of shit needs to die[/QUOTE]

@you thinking that jailing a dude for life, or even executing him with how the process is, is cheaper than treating him.
All you've got is your manufactured outrage. No reasoning or logic at all.
And like I said in my previous post, why aren't you shouting your RAGE at child services, who had opportunities to take the child, or the man's ex-wife who heard the child's calls for help and abandoned him?