Drugs and crime

I'm assuming that the three youths who kicked that guy to death have been charged with murder and obviously his life and the life of his family have been ruined, but does anyone actually believe that they meant to kill him?

The word "manslaughter" springs to mind, especially as the accused were all high on drink and drugs...but this brings another point: the effects of drugs on people being such that surely no-one on drugs could contemplate killing someone as they'd be too stoned! If, however, people can think quite rationally while basically drugged up then what is the problem with drugs if you can charge someone for a serious crime they committed while they were high!

The problem with (drunken) idiots is they think they live in a free society, more importantly they (like car drivers and arms dealers) have a confused idea of what freedom is. If you ask a bunch of pricks to stop acting like a bunch of pricks, in their (tiny) minds you've just asked them to stop breathing!


The problem is the perennial one of the ghettoisation of society. Not only does one half not know how the other half lives they have no idea how the other half feels.