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The crimes being committed here by the DEA are equivalent to the following:

- Suspect is detained and harshly interrogated, rights violated, possibly tortured.

- Suspect signs confession

- Suspect is given a drug to wipe his/her memory of the torture/abuses.

- Suspect is convicted of crime he/she committed.

The specific law that is being violated is different, but the effect is the same, since one could argue that if the drug the suspect was given wiped away any memory of the mistreatment, it might as well not have occurred.



Wait, what? No, it's not like that at all. It's bad for an entirely different reason.


I agree that it's bad for a different reason, but it's bad in the same way. In other words, it should trigger the same "ick" response in our gut.


Honestly, you haven't presented a logical argument, or even a persuasive emotional one.


The goal of my comment was to present an emotional argument analog, not to create the best execution of that emotional argument.




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