Mach said, "Unless it affects more people than just yourself..."
There might be more to his story. Perhaps he drives a bulldozer, and was high while on the job. Suddenly it's more than just him at risk.
If he was just minding his own business at home or something, and they arrested him, then yeah, I have a problem with that.
But if people working with him are trusting him to be alert and quick-thinking on the job site, and he isn't (for whatever reason, whether drugs, alcohol, NyQuil, whatever), that is a whole other matter.
I work at an industrial site, and even though I have an office job, I have to go out into the construction yard several times throughout the week. While I do watch out for myself, there are still forklift drivers, semi drivers, and other large vehicles moving about at a brisk pace all the time. I have to trust them to be paying attention and not run me over. (I'm not saying I meander about randomly, trusting them to stay out of my way.) If they don't have all of their faculties about them, that's an increased danger that I shouldn't have to deal with. (Personally, I'd rather not have to deal with it at all, but that's another topic entirely.)
Do I think it warrants three years imprisonment? No. In fact, that seems harsh, considering how little time others often serve for "worse crimes".
I don't agree with current drug policies out there. For example, I have a condition that I won't go into here, other than to say that because of it I'm prescribed something that, in a drug test, would label me as being "positive" for drug abuse, even though it's medicinal and required for me to functional normally. Now, I probably wouldn't be imprisoned for it, since I could provide the paperwork, but then suddenly someone knows more about my personal life than I'd wanted.
Anyway, sorry for veering so far off-topic. My point was, depending on the circumstances of his "arrest" (I'm assuming they had to arrest him at some point), it might have been more than just a "moral law" violation.
(By the way, it galls me to be siding with the legal system on this one, because I usually have a very low opinion of it in general.)
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Re: Agreed!
Date: 2003-03-22 01:01 pm (UTC)There might be more to his story. Perhaps he drives a bulldozer, and was high while on the job. Suddenly it's more than just him at risk.
If he was just minding his own business at home or something, and they arrested him, then yeah, I have a problem with that.
But if people working with him are trusting him to be alert and quick-thinking on the job site, and he isn't (for whatever reason, whether drugs, alcohol, NyQuil, whatever), that is a whole other matter.
I work at an industrial site, and even though I have an office job, I have to go out into the construction yard several times throughout the week. While I do watch out for myself, there are still forklift drivers, semi drivers, and other large vehicles moving about at a brisk pace all the time. I have to trust them to be paying attention and not run me over. (I'm not saying I meander about randomly, trusting them to stay out of my way.) If they don't have all of their faculties about them, that's an increased danger that I shouldn't have to deal with. (Personally, I'd rather not have to deal with it at all, but that's another topic entirely.)
Do I think it warrants three years imprisonment? No. In fact, that seems harsh, considering how little time others often serve for "worse crimes".
I don't agree with current drug policies out there. For example, I have a condition that I won't go into here, other than to say that because of it I'm prescribed something that, in a drug test, would label me as being "positive" for drug abuse, even though it's medicinal and required for me to functional normally. Now, I probably wouldn't be imprisoned for it, since I could provide the paperwork, but then suddenly someone knows more about my personal life than I'd wanted.
Anyway, sorry for veering so far off-topic. My point was, depending on the circumstances of his "arrest" (I'm assuming they had to arrest him at some point), it might have been more than just a "moral law" violation.
(By the way, it galls me to be siding with the legal system on this one, because I usually have a very low opinion of it in general.)