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[Akura]

How is it endangerment unless the crime somehow puts the child in danger? Wouldn't throwing their mother in jail for 10 years pose MORE of a danger to the children even if it were, somehow, so?

*confused*

The problem is, if you're selling drugs, the person you're selling to might not actually want to pay for it. Or might (violently) disargree with the price and whatnot.

[GlyphGryph]

Isn't this true of selling anything? I mean, say you're selling something over craigslist or something?

Don't get me wrong, I can see how a situation that involves selling drugs could endanger the child, but I don't see how it would constitue child endangerment in and of itself.

[Vector]

... In general?  No.  There's a way you could die while eating your morning cheerios, but we just worry about things that have been historically known to cause problems.  Like drug-dealing.

[Levi]

Prisons are very profitable in the US and have strong lobby groups attached, which is probably why you still see ridiculous things like this happening.

[Zangi]

Prisons are very profitable in the US and have strong lobby groups attached, which is probably why you still see ridiculous things like this happening.

Considering that its the taxpayers that foots the expenses and pays the profits.  What incentive is there to stop such a good deal?

[Cthulhu]

Isn't this true of selling anything? I mean, say you're selling something over craigslist or something?

Don't get me wrong, I can see how a situation that involves selling drugs could endanger the child, but I don't see how it would constitue child endangerment in and of itself.

Other than raising your kids in a criminal environment?  Teaching your kids that it's okay to sell drugs?

[Levi]

Isn't this true of selling anything? I mean, say you're selling something over craigslist or something?

Don't get me wrong, I can see how a situation that involves selling drugs could endanger the child, but I don't see how it would constitue child endangerment in and of itself.

Other than raising your kids in a criminal environment?  Teaching your kids that it's okay to sell drugs?

My parents chain smoked for my entire childhood, but that didn't teach me it was good to smoke.  If anything I was probably more aware of the risks.

[Cthulhu]

I'm not sure how being raised by a smoker is more than slightly similar to being raised by a drug-dealer, but okay.

[lemon10]

Prisons are very profitable in the US and have strong lobby groups attached, which is probably why you still see ridiculous things like this happening.

Considering that its the taxpayers that foots the expenses and pays the profits.  What incentive is there to stop such a good deal?

Nothing, they actually found out a judge for basically sending kids to prison for no reason who was getting payed a cut by some prison to do so.

[Levi]

I'm not sure how being raised by a smoker is more than slightly similar to being raised by a drug-dealer, but okay.

Most people I've known who deal in cannabis are pretty normal people.  There is a pretty big gap between somebody selling a bit of weed and someone selling heroin in my mind.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

... In general?  No.  There's a way you could die while eating your morning cheerios, but we just worry about things that have been historically known to cause problems.  Like drug-dealing.

Which is only more dangerous than eating your morning cheerios because of the absurdly violent stance the law takes against drug-dealing, relegating it to the black market, which is by nature dangerous. This would be the same law that's sending this poor woman away for ten years, so I say what I've always said about the War on Drugs: Fail Law is Fail.

[Vector]

I don't know enough about the war on drugs to address your point.  I'm not here to argue, dude, just to explain why she'd be sent to jail.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I specifically wasn't trying to argue with you, just to make a point about this whole situation using your comment as a jumping off point.

[lordnincompoop]

Isn't this true of selling anything? I mean, say you're selling something over craigslist or something?

Don't get me wrong, I can see how a situation that involves selling drugs could endanger the child, but I don't see how it would constitue child endangerment in and of itself.

Other than raising your kids in a criminal environment?  Teaching your kids that it's okay to sell drugs?

My parents chain smoked for my entire childhood, but that didn't teach me it was good to smoke.  If anything I was probably more aware of the risks.

Unfortunately, that cannot be said for all children raised like this. A lot of kids, I expect, would follow their parents.

With children in this environment, especially if they wanted to, they'd find it much easier to gain access.

[Vector]

I specifically wasn't trying to argue with you, just to make a point about this whole situation using your comment as a jumping off point.

Ah, okay.  Thanks for letting me know =)