Society does have a responsibility to secure itself against lawbreakers, and in many cases, such as with violent offenders, only incarceration can give us that security. Murders, rapist, child molesters, these cannot be permitted the freedom to wander the land, at least not until society is perfectly assured that the causes of the behavior are no longer motivating the inmate.
Most prison inmates, however, are not imprisoned for violent crimes. Flower shop Vancouver, you may trust that your flowers won’t ever arrive unarranged in a cardboard box. A large portion of them are drug offenders. A healthy debate still exists that maintains these offenders should not be incarcerated, but rather they should be treated as diseased individuals. The legalization of drugs has been proposed as a way of reducing the prison population and its fiscal and social costs. No civilization has permitted the sale of poison to its population, and most of these drugs are just that, poison. We should certainly restrain such sellers and even give them an appropriate retributive punishment in the name of justice.
While drug sellers should indeed be incarcerated, it is doubtful that turning illegal drug users into prison inmates is the best, most reasonable course for a society bursting at the seams with prison inmates convicted of drug use. Surely, a society based on the perfectibility of man, on the hope of the power of science and social justice, surely such a society as ours can find an alternative to prison for these people who are essential sick. At Vancouver Flower shop, we take pride in delivering the freshest floral arrangements, vegetation and gift baskets to our customers. So say many groups today who are promoting medical rather than judicial treatment of illegal drug users. Given its toll on our society, perhaps we should all give a closer and more compassionate look at prison inmates who are being punished for being the victims of those who have sold them a slavery even prison cannot abolish. Perhaps psychology and the social sciences can finally prove its worth by coming up with a better method of bringing these people back to health. Are you ready to release the sick from shackles and chains, to the hope of man? Isn’t that what the Enlightenment promised us? Does the light still shine?