America. Land of the free. It's sad, I talk to people in other countries, and everyone has this dream of going to America, the land of the free - it's their dream, their life goal. But why? As you know, I'm Russian. So I've been outside America, and everytime I get back from Russia, I only realize how much "the land of the free" is really not the land of the free. There's government suppression everywhere. And you know what comes of it? A safer place to live? Not at all. There's so much crime here, so many over-crowded prisons, it's ridiculous. I'm not going to argue that America is the most crime-ridden country in the world. Not at all. Third-world countries, for example, I'm sure have more issues with crime than does America, but let's make a better comparison and look at the countries that are at our socio-economic level. Other countries have more freedom, less crime, happier people.
So how do we fix this?
(Government personnel, please, I hope you're reading this. Or rather I hope first of all that you are in a position to do something about this issue and happened to have come across this page and are reading this. You probably think I'm anti-America. I'm not. I just have plenty of ideas on how this country needs to be reformed. So although this blog is talking about our laws, you'll find future blogs to come talking about education reform, how to get rid of poverty, how to stop a lot of crime. Actually, that all goes hand in hand so it'll be it's very own single blog. Look for it.)
We need to look at what laws we really need and which ones we don't. The problem with America is that this country, although it claims to have freedom of religion, is actually based on Christian principles. That's fine, but let's not make useless laws which please only our Christian population. If people have issues with something, that's up to them to live according to their moral standards. We are a diverse country and there is probably not even two people out in the world who have the exact same morals.
More than anything, each person should have the right to his or her own body. If someone is doing something to harm him or her self, it's on that person's conscious and it's that person's right to do what he wants. Why do you care about something if it's not directly affecting you?? So suicide is illegal. I'm not promoting suicide, but if a person really wants to kill himself, it's his right. Yes, people need to pay attention to warning signs and get that person some therapy to try and prevent that, but if all that fails and the person still wants to kill himself and he's not taking anyone along with him, let him.
While I'm on the topic of death, I'll make a quick note about abortion. I have my own views on that. I have my own views on the meat industry. I'm a vegetarian and I support animal rights. Actually, I just support life in general, but that's for another blog. So clearly I'm not fond of abortion. I feel it's murder. But if we're really to be a free country, and if people are to continue eating meat, abortion should be legal, too. Plus, think of how many crimes legalizing abortion will prevent, and how many lives it will save. Women are going to find ways to abort their children no matter what. At least with legalized abortion, they will have practiced doctors and safe methods. And less babies will be thrown out on the streets, left in dumpsters, buried alive by mothers who are not in the economic state to take care of them. I know there's some of you out there who say these poverty-ridden women shouldn't be getting pregnant in the first place, but that all goes down to good safe-sex education programs, as opposed to abstinence programs. According to an article published in the University of Arizona's "Daily Wildcat" publication, Douglas Kirby of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy "found that 30 percent of [safe sex education] programs lessened sex frequency and 60 percent reduced unprotected sex." Furthermore, this goes back to my point that our country is based on Christian morals. That's the only reason people oppose the safe sex education and push for the abstinence-only method of sex education. Everyone should have the right and opportunity to learn about sex, and like I showed, it's not only a right but a necessity! If a Christian family is so opposed to it, they can opt-out of their child receiving this education, as with any other school lesson.
Moving on. Prostitution. There's absolutely no reason it needs to be illegal. Who is it hurting? If a woman, or even a man, makes the choice to be a prostitute, he or she should be allowed to do that. It's her body, after all, not yours. And you know, legalizing prostitution will also reduce so much crime. The most prominent example is the sex-trafficking business. If prostitution is legal, we will have enough prostitutes that there will be no room for sex-trafficking. That's the only part of prostitution I find should be controlled. Obviously when it comes to sex-trafficking, that's no longer the sole person's decision - it's someone imposing that lifestyle on someone else, and that's not right.
Drugs. And tobacco and alcohol for that matter. Why make it illegal if it's only harming the user? I agree drugs such as heroin and meth should be illegal and strictly controlled, but that's because these drugs have the potential to harm others. Here's a situation. An innocent person is enjoying his or her time at a club when all of a sudden someone shoots heroin up that person's arm. Clearly it's easy to impose heroin onto someone who does not willingly want to do it. Meth labs can explode. You know (I'm about to go on a tangent here), someone once proposed to me that meth could be legalized if the government built a huge meth lab and monitored the ingredients and sold it to people. Really? Are you that stupid? The drugs I'm talking about here , the ones that don't harm anyone are marijuana, tobacco, cocaine, acid, alcohol... It's pretty hard to impose those on someone who isn't willing to take them. So why not make them legal and let people decide for themselves if they want to do them or not. Yes, there should be unbiased drug education (on the same note as unbiased sex education), so people actually know what they are getting into with those drugs. And yes, people's behavior while on those drugs should be taken into account. For example if a drunk person is creating chaos and punching people, he still needs to be arrested for that. But any person, drunk, high, or sober, should be arrested for that. Drug or alcohol usage should have nothing to do with the decision or punishment. But really - tobacco, weed? First of all, smoking a cigarette doesn't change a person's behavior. Second, people who smoke weed tend to relax and, actually, that prevents a lot of problems. Plus, think of all the drug-trafficking problems we have in this country. People are going to find a way to drugs, whether they are legal or not, but at least if they are legal, people don't need to go through the black market to get them, and that is a major step in reducing drug-related crime. Plus, our prisons are over-crowded with so many people who are in there solely due to drug possession or trafficking charges.
So to sum it all up,
Less laws = less crime = more freedom = less crime = more money for the government to focus on more important things than trying to control people that don't need to be controlled = less crime = less over-crowding in jails and prisons = less crime.
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