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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Bicycle outing with happy ending
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 10:48:05 -0400
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On Sat, 24 May 2025 07:47:51 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>On 5/23/2025 9:48 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 5/23/2025 7:45 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> On 5/23/2025 2:26 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>>>> On Wed May 21 16:23:16 2025 Catrike Ryder  wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 21 May 2025 17:10:30 -0300, Shadow <Sh@dow.br> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 21 May 2025 10:18:50 -0500, AMuzi 
>>>>>> <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Too bad the pervert lived.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://nypost.com/2025/05/20/us-news/hero-dad- 
>>>>>>> rescues-11-year-old- daughter-from-perv-who-dragged- 
>>>>>>> her-into-a-remote-area-of-nyc-park- cops/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> //
>>>>>> A local parent said he?s wary of the more remote areas 
>>>>>> in the park,
>>>>>> and that he?s often encountered "crazy people" lurking 
>>>>>> there.
>>>>>> //
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Id say.
>>>>>> //
>>>>>> (He) snatched her and tried to sexually assault her 
>>>>>> while the pair
>>>>>> were riding their bikes
>>>>>> //
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Almost impossible. Only a crazy person would do 
>>>>>> that. Can you
>>>>>> imagine how complicated it must be to rape someone 
>>>>>> while riding a
>>>>>> bicycle?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Weird. Doesn't Trump's "biggest and bestist 
>>>>>> heathcare EVER"
>>>>>> cover mental diseases?
>>>>>>     Next MAGA-hats will be defending the "crazy 
>>>>>> people's" right to
>>>>>> buy guns. LOL.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     PS Aproximately 1-1.5% of any population is 
>>>>>> psychotic(usually
>>>>>> schizophrenic). They have NO IDEA they're crazy. Only 
>>>>>> an efficient
>>>>>> public health system can identify and ensure they get 
>>>>>> adequate free
>>>>>> treatment. And of course, keep them away from guns.
>>>>>>     []'s
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It used to be that people like that got put away in 
>>>>> facilities. Then,
>>>>> in 1963, the jackasses in the government decided that 
>>>>> was wrong, and
>>>>> turned them all loose. Like you say, many emotionally 
>>>>> disturbed people
>>>>> have no idea they are emotionally disturbed and are not 
>>>>> going to
>>>>> voluntarily submit to treatment.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Those facilities were NEVER properly funded and became 
>>>> nothing more than poorly managed prisons.Most of the 
>>>> lunatics on the streets now are severely addicted people 
>>>> that cannot and woulod not be cured of their addiction. 
>>>> Fentanyl will kill them and therw's no way to stop it.
>>>
>>> In theory.
>>> But the numbers are not decreasing by themselves:
>>>
>>> https://ktla.com/news/california/a-southern-california- 
>>> mayor-says-he- wants-to-give-homeless-people-all-the- 
>>> fentanyl-they-want/
>> 
>> Andrew, I remember you arguing in favor of legalizing drugs. 
>> Am I mistaken?
>> 
>
>I'm agnostic, and there are serious concerns on every side 
>of that argument.
>
>I believe I wrote merely that 100 years of worldwide Heroin 
>ban has cost huge amounts of money, attention, all sorts of 
>resources (human labor not otherwise productive) and ruined 
>lives and yet it's cheaper and more pure than ever and in 
>most neighborhoods can be delivered faster than a pizza.
>
>This is not a successful policy.

Banning a substance often creates a black market for it and black
market goods often might be very dangerous.

--
C'est bon
Soloman