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\Petition says Colombia citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in US airstrike on 15 September

A family in Colombia filed a petition on Tuesday with the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that the Colombian citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in a US airstrike on 15 September.

The petition marks the first formal complaint over the airstrikes by the Trump administration against suspected drug boats, attacks that the White House says are justified under a novel interpretation of law.

The IACHR, part of the Organization of American States, is designed to “promote and protect human rights in the Western Hemisphere”. The US is a member, and in March the Trump administration’s state department wrote: “The United States is pleased to be a strong supporter of the IACHR and is committed to continuing support for the Commission’s work and its independence. Preserving the IACHR’s autonomy is a pillar of our human rights policy in the region.”

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[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But your actions can harm others. Drunk drivers kill people every day, people high on heoin and coke lose control of themselves and hurt people too.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

We criminalize drunk driving, which is the “action that can harm others,” not merely drinking, which is an action that does not harm others.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was already a crime to impale children but most people still agree banning lawn darts was a good idea.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

And yet we don’t have a black market of “lawn darts.” There are no cartels manufacturing and smuggling lawn darts. No epidemic of lawn dart users. Something about these cases is disanalogous.

All laws are concessions. You surrender some rights in order to safeguard other more important rights. It seems that the right to use lawn darts is not one that people value, unlike the right to eat, drink, and imbibe whatever they want.

Medical doctors agree that sugar is extremely harmful, hepatotoxic. There’s no upside to ingesting it unless you’re starving. Why is it legal? Because,

  1. there’s no moral standing for the government to tell anyone what to do with their own body as long as they’re not harming anyone else, and
  2. the consequences of outlawing sugar would be worse than the harms of ingesting it.
  3. And the same is true of drugs.