They are comparable in that they can both get you thrown in prison in various places at various times by people who have a religious mentality when it comes to the nature of the "justice" system.
I hope I can assume that you retract your earlier statement about the term "victim" as it relates to people having their lives destroyed by unjust laws.
From the miscegenation laws mentioned earlier to anti-weed laws to anti-gay laws to any number of other laws, much of our current system of creating and enforcing laws is based around victimizing various people.
Miscegenation and homosexuality aren't choices, getting high is. If you're punished for being with someone you love you're a victim, if you're punished for getting high you're not.
By your logic it makes perfect sense to say "Its a choice to be with someone of a different race. You could perfectly well just choose not be with someone of a different race. Since its a choice you are not a victim."
It seems the line is arbitrarily drawn at "getting high". Is this because you dont personally like the idea of other people getting high or is there some other logical basis for your determination?
Say holding some religious belief is illegal. By all accounts what religion you believe in is a choice. Is the person who is punished for their religious belief a victim? They could have just chosen not to hold that belief but they "went against the law". So theyre not a victim?
I am going to disengage from this conversation as I suspect this stance has less to do with any logical reasoning and more with personal conviction. Which is fine, no shade on anyone for their personal convictions. As long as they dont go around trying to force that on other people. ;)
Literally in the comment you're replying to I said it's not a choice but okay. You can "disengage" for whatever made up reason you want, but you're wrong about my stance as clearly you're not even reading the comments to which you're replying.
I hope I can assume that you retract your earlier statement about the term "victim" as it relates to people having their lives destroyed by unjust laws.
From the miscegenation laws mentioned earlier to anti-weed laws to anti-gay laws to any number of other laws, much of our current system of creating and enforcing laws is based around victimizing various people.