Can't say much now, tired, about to get to bed.

I didn't say most people in jail had a drug habit. I said many of them do. My main point was that poverty isn't the cause of crime. Crime is the cause of poverty and unemployment. Not the only cause, of course, but a large one. And yes, I have lived some pretty damn bad places, where poverty and crime are all over the place. I don't know why you would like debating with me, because I have to re-explain most everything I say because you don't understand it at first.

Yes, drug addicts need treatment as well as jail time. And they get both. It's not like they just take some addict off the street and toss him in a cell, if the person needs therapy, medicine, etc. to help him get over his addiction, it's available to him. Nobody wants a prison full of addicts going through withdrawls, obviously.

There is a mandatory appeal for all death sentences, which usually takes more than fifteen years. I agree with that...the appeal, anyway, not the time. Maybe five years. But for a guy to get a dozen appeals and spend forty or fifty years waiting to be executed, that's ridiculous.

(Edit: Whether or not you agree with drugs being illegal, if somebody commits a drug-related crime, whether it be buying, selling, possessing, etc., he has still committed a crime and should be punished accordingly.)

Remember the guy a long while ago in Singapore? Early 90's, I believe? He was caught spray-painting a guy's garage door, I believe, and they caned him. Somebody was actually trained in martial arts to carry out the sentence, and the schmuck stood there while this guy whacked him with a cane. Tore him up. Now, I'm not saying that's humane, and I'm not saying that's the way we should do things...but crime is low in Singapore. Do the math.