web02.fireside.fm Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:46:47 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Key Thinking (Aloud) - Episodes Tagged with “Crime” https://keythinking.fireside.fm/tags/crime Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:00:00 -0400 Casual philosophy & cultural criticism with Keith Telfeyan. Keith is a writer and artist born in California, living in Berlin. He takes a contrarian perspective toward triggering topics, but with curiosity and compassion. Support Keith on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/keithtelfeyan en-us episodic Keith, thinking aloud. About the issues of our times. Keith Telfeyan Casual philosophy & cultural criticism with Keith Telfeyan. Keith is a writer and artist born in California, living in Berlin. He takes a contrarian perspective toward triggering topics, but with curiosity and compassion. Support Keith on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/keithtelfeyan no philosophy, politics, culture, thinking, thinking out loud, travel, meta, discussion Keith Telfeyan keithtelfeyan@gmail.com End the War on Drugs https://keythinking.fireside.fm/drugwar 920c3e93-ea35-45d7-980f-d146fea002d2 Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:00:00 -0400 Keith Telfeyan full Keith Telfeyan The global drug war is an utter failure. It is a waste of time, money and human lives, and has done virtually nothing to curb the demand for drug use. It is especially terrible in the USA, where it disproportionately affects underprivileged communities. If you care about social justice, fiscal responsibility or civil liberties, help fight to end the war on drugs. 24:31 no Our modern political fight is full of tired slogans, ambiguous chants and outlandish demands. Let's get specific, and target a true enemy of the people: the war on drugs. This policy - American and global - unjustly targets minorities and the poor, it costs billions of dollars a year, and it infringes on the personal liberties of citizens. Insofar as the war on drugs aims to ameliorate the problem of drug abuse, it turns what is clearly a health issue, into a criminal issue, solving nothing. It in fact exacerbates the social problems it purports to solve. In this episode, I expound on these main arguments against this stupid and wayward federal initiative: it is socially unjust, it is a fiscally irrepsonsible, it is antithetical to our sense of personal freedom, and it turns a health issue into a criminal issue. This episode also appears on YouTube as a videocast. I recorded this (for the first time) in front of a camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEiLO3glCLU philosophy, contrarian, culture, politics, centrism, thinking, police, blm, black lives matter, drug war Our modern political fight is full of tired slogans, ambiguous chants and outlandish demands. Let's get specific, and target a true enemy of the people: the war on drugs. This policy - American and global - unjustly targets minorities and the poor, it costs billions of dollars a year, and it infringes on the personal liberties of citizens. Insofar as the war on drugs aims to ameliorate the problem of drug abuse, it turns what is clearly a health issue, into a criminal issue, solving nothing. It in fact exacerbates the social problems it purports to solve.

In this episode, I expound on these main arguments against this stupid and wayward federal initiative: it is socially unjust, it is a fiscally irrepsonsible, it is antithetical to our sense of personal freedom, and it turns a health issue into a criminal issue.

This episode also appears on YouTube as a videocast. I recorded this (for the first time) in front of a camera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEiLO3glCLU

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In this episode, I expound on these main arguments against this stupid and wayward federal initiative: it is socially unjust, it is a fiscally irrepsonsible, it is antithetical to our sense of personal freedom, and it turns a health issue into a criminal issue.

This episode also appears on YouTube as a videocast. I recorded this (for the first time) in front of a camera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEiLO3glCLU

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