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Would you prefer that people sufficiently hopped up on drugs are allowed to run rampant over anything in civilization?

Obviously an extreme scenario but the reality is that civilization must maintain order and yeah, people in general have no problem giving drugs to people who are actively attacking them.

The trick, of course, is how to allow that to happen^ while also not authorizing a total descent into authoritarian rule.

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Maybe people in these orderly civilizations should figure out how to do that with less death? Let’s push ourselves to be better here.

I don’t see the suggestion made anywhere that we let society fall to rampant running drug users. Arguably this is already happening though, see Diana Kipyokei.

The suggestion is literally not to sedate violent people “without due process.” Of course sedating actively violent people is within due process (which is why it’s able to happen repeatedly), but presumably GP is suggesting something closer to acquiring a specific warrant or court order to authorize it. Of course this doesn’t address an emergency situation, so the alternatives are 1) more aggressive/more likely-to-be-deadly force, or 2) don’t stop them at all.

Yes obviously we should strive for zero deaths in these encounters.

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