Alcohol.

Lots and lots of people lean heavily on it and think that alcohol is the spice of their life. When, it contributes to so many problems than it’s so-called benefits. We tried, in America anyways, to outright ban alcohol. Problem was that the person who wanted it banned, was too extremist.

Like he didn’t think it all through and think just going for the jugular of the problem is what will work. When, it didn’t and just made people work around it until eventually the ban was dismantled.

So, since then, we’ve been putting up with drunk drivers, drunk disputes, drunk abusers and other issues. I still wish we could just slam our hands down at the desk and demand we sit to discuss in how to properly deal with this issue than people proclaiming that it’s not a problem.

  • Funkytom467@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    What do you mean the police?

    Isn’t the hospital and medics the one who cares for suicidal people?

    Putting them in jail if that’s what you mean is pretty barbaric.

    Again though the police can’t detain you indefinitely. What stop people from doing it is being cared for the reason they wanted to in the first place.

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      23 hours ago

      Isn’t the hospital and medics the one who cares for suicidal people?

      not in America, where hospitals aren’t free and a call to the suicide hotline will have the cops going to your house