Do you think that the criminal system is correct - illegal drug use can be a felony charge but battery / domestic abuse may just be a misdemeanor?

[Anonymous]

I got into an argument on youtube about this and quite simply.

A single drug user can negatively affect dozens to hundreds of people - through petty crime, intoxicated driving, theft, etc. - whereas domestic abuse negatively only impacts a handful.

Drug abuse is an addiction that is, in ways, uncontrolable and can be quite hard to escape from. Due to the reprecusions there's a harsher punishment to try and discourage it.

Whereas domestic abuse can be escaped from, there's many support options out there that don't even involve family, but many people choose to stay even defend their abuser.

[Drelikee]

The probelm with your theory is this. A lot of people who use drugs don't necessarily commit petty crimes, nor should they be considered petty criminals without actually committing those crimes. Now lots of times drug users tend to do these things but individual shouldn't be to be under the setting to the point where they're punished for crimes they're more likely to commit without committing them. Some may argue well that is not the case, those crimes are charged individually but I believe it is the case. I believe that it is an unspoken situation, like your theory seems to be suggesting.

So yea while I do think you're on to something as far as the system doing that, I don't agree that it should. That ends up making any sense at all LOL. I have a feeling though poster might get what I'm saying that some people reading might not necessarilly get what's being said.

[Guy13]

That’s not changing unless their is violence directly associated with it.

[Agape93]

Nope. But the justice system is a corrupt joke.