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Recently this thread was closed. Supposedly threads about drugs are not allowed. However, there is strangely nothing about this in the rules or AUP.
The topic starter read an article which he found interesting, so he posted a link to the article here and possibly hoped to get a discussion thread going.
Contents of the opening post consisted of nothing but a URL which refers to a legal article about an illegal substance. Judging from the article, by law, it's not illegal to discuss this subject. The rest of the topic was people attempting to funnily reply to it.
I can somewhat understand the moderators, in my opinion, faulty reasoning to "shield" younger users from this subject, which was the reasoning used in previous marijuana related posts and what was supposedly referred too, but which is a method I personally do not agree with, as I believe that withholding information about this subject, or treating it specially, only makes it more appealing. (Which is funny, because it's really just a harmless herb compared to certain legal toxins that are allowed by law, but that's another discussion.) We all know that as kids, when parents said no, it was only more incentive to somehow do it.
Anyway, I said somewhat because other threads about this subject have been allowed. Ruling on this subject in the past 2+ years has been unpredictable to say the least. But from what I can tell, this is the third closed thread regarding this specific subject, but by far the least harmful. In my nearly 10 years here, we have discussed a lot of illegal matters, some way worse then others and most definitely way worse then this, yet those were, for some reason, allowed. a recent example of that is this thread.
Now in this pedophile thread, a link is given to an easily purchasable book which tells you how to get away, or diminish charges about an extremely touchy subject, especially in the last few years. The article of the closed thread however has no information about how to obtain it, as a matter of fact it makes it very clear that it's an illegal substance. Somehow though, it was deemed more harmful to the population of this forum then a book that teaches you how to be a better pedophile.
My questions are, why are we not allowed to discuss such things? how does discussion this cause anything "bad" or "harmful"? When was withholding or censoring information ever the good solution? Why is this specific subject not allowed, but other illegal stuff is, and why is the supposed ruling on the topic so half-assedly done?
I do kinda get why topics like warez and other illegal internet "stuff" are not allowed, those topics share the same "realm" of existence as this forum. However drugs do not, and as long as people are not selling it here, I do not see why people should not be allowed to discuss the matter.
The topic starter read an article which he found interesting, so he posted a link to the article here and possibly hoped to get a discussion thread going.
Contents of the opening post consisted of nothing but a URL which refers to a legal article about an illegal substance. Judging from the article, by law, it's not illegal to discuss this subject. The rest of the topic was people attempting to funnily reply to it.
I can somewhat understand the moderators, in my opinion, faulty reasoning to "shield" younger users from this subject, which was the reasoning used in previous marijuana related posts and what was supposedly referred too, but which is a method I personally do not agree with, as I believe that withholding information about this subject, or treating it specially, only makes it more appealing. (Which is funny, because it's really just a harmless herb compared to certain legal toxins that are allowed by law, but that's another discussion.) We all know that as kids, when parents said no, it was only more incentive to somehow do it.
Anyway, I said somewhat because other threads about this subject have been allowed. Ruling on this subject in the past 2+ years has been unpredictable to say the least. But from what I can tell, this is the third closed thread regarding this specific subject, but by far the least harmful. In my nearly 10 years here, we have discussed a lot of illegal matters, some way worse then others and most definitely way worse then this, yet those were, for some reason, allowed. a recent example of that is this thread.
Now in this pedophile thread, a link is given to an easily purchasable book which tells you how to get away, or diminish charges about an extremely touchy subject, especially in the last few years. The article of the closed thread however has no information about how to obtain it, as a matter of fact it makes it very clear that it's an illegal substance. Somehow though, it was deemed more harmful to the population of this forum then a book that teaches you how to be a better pedophile.
My questions are, why are we not allowed to discuss such things? how does discussion this cause anything "bad" or "harmful"? When was withholding or censoring information ever the good solution? Why is this specific subject not allowed, but other illegal stuff is, and why is the supposed ruling on the topic so half-assedly done?
I do kinda get why topics like warez and other illegal internet "stuff" are not allowed, those topics share the same "realm" of existence as this forum. However drugs do not, and as long as people are not selling it here, I do not see why people should not be allowed to discuss the matter.