We certainly have some valid case studies on how a continued march to the tunes of Criminalization and Enforcement works.
Simply look to the example's of Nazi Germany, and Stalinist Russian. Dissent, Drug use, Being of questionable ethnicity, Homosexuality...... etc all led to a rather final form of criminalization and it was enforced by brainwashed thugs in jackboots (some in black uniforms and some in brown one's) It's well documented that the death camps were originally envisioned by the nazi party as a whole and Hitler in particular as holding zones for undesirables. Who could then be used as forced labour.
If you destroy someone's life by criminalizing to a outrageous extent some small unimportant thing they are doing which really only effects them. Then they end up in the repeating jail cycle. and effectively end up with a sentence of life in jail. How is that really any different than gassing them and sending them to the oven. Either way you have taken away all personal liberties from them. Only realistic differences are in there method you die sooner rather than later, in our method we place the financial burden up our citizens to feed and house them.
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