Don't bother punishing him, or anyone else that takes banned substances. Don't ban any substances. Just let the best chemist lab win.
Okay, I don't really feel that way...except sometimes I do. Sometimes I think that anything which can't be eradicated (marijuana, prostitution, jacked-up athletes) might as well be left alone.
Gangs? Yeah, them, too. Of course, I'd throw them into ten hermetically sealed city blocks and let them have at each other for three weeks or so. (No food, except what's in yonder dumpster...)
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Here's one: let's just get rid of money entirely. It's only worth what we say it is, and all too many people think it's worth just everything. Me, I think it's damn near worthless. (Work a till for a week or two in a store or better yet a bank and you'll develop a skewed view like mine: it's just pieces of paper and metal alloy trinkets.)
Now, what to replace it with? I'm kind of partial to Whuffie, myself: Cory Doctorow's reputation-based currency. Do something nice for somebody, earn Whuffie; piss somebody off, lose Whuffie. Doubtless there's lots of complexities to be navigated. Kind of like our current global financial system.
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One world government. Get on with it already. You know damn well we'll get there eventually--why not hurry the process up by a century or two? What's everybody afraid of? Losing their identity? That's pretty sad.
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Let them ROID up.
World government, a very interesting idea.
I think fragmentation is more likely than world Gov. Post carbon reality will make the world very large again and the concerns of far off places just a curiosity talked about by the elite rich who can still travel.
Sports and drugs, who cares it's all bread and circuses to keep the sheep bleating happily.
The gang thing, hell yes, and sell it as pay per view to fund green affordable housing or sending seeds and tools to poor farmers, to save heritage crops and animals, offer free birth control in the same communities or some other usefull endevor.
GAB--short term, you're probably right. Long term, if this species ever gets its shit together, a one-world federation just makes too much sense. I like to think in the long term. The short term is just too depressing.
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