re: Oregon just re-criminalized drug possession and use

Question, should those actions be criminalized regardless of intent or motivating impulse?

If a man (who doesn’t own said business or work there) breaks the window of a business, does it matter why?

If I get mugged because the mugger needed drug money, rent money, cash to pay for his child’s surgery, or he just wanted the new PS5 so he could play Stellar Blade, does it really matter which?

You could argue that less drug use would make for fewer desperate people, and you would be right about that, but it doesn’t change the need to enforce laws punishing criminal behavior that harms innocent people and property.

Regardless of the motivating impulse of the criminal act, the criminal act should be punished, and often is not in progressive cities.