Comments by "blazednlovinit" (@blazednlovinit) on "Peyote: The people who take drugs to see God - BBC News" video.

So the article states that it's illegal to take unless you're native American (which in itself is a racially discriminating law) and then the BBC presenter takes it, and is not native American.
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maxwell simon "But until everyone else is able to see that way too, we're going to have to help those who are discriminated against." ^ Which would be everyone except native Americans, in this situation, as they are entitled to things, and rights that others are not entitled to. "Also I might want to point out that Peyote isn't exactly deadly or damaging in the long term either." ^ That's besides the point, were talking about equal rights in society, last I checked. Either it's okay for everyone, or it's okay for no one, it really is just as simple as that.
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maxwell simon In fairness it was European disease that did most of the heavy lifting. Way I see it is, if the natives want to be benefit from the same civilisation as everyone else, they should follow the same laws, otherwise they are a class who is more privileged than other classes because of an arbitrary characteristic.
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maxwell simon I stand by my opinion that everyone should have equal rights and chances. People should be judged on the content of their character and their merits and agency, not on arbitrary characteristics like sex, or race.
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maxwell simon Indeed, so giving some people more rights based on their race is a bad thing, surely.
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maxwell simon Compensation for what? Are the natives all 250 years old and still living or something? All this happened to different people, by different people, so some people are claiming the pain of their ancestors to personally cash in on something they never experienced, at the expense of innocent people who never did anything wrong, all the while being ungrateful for the technology and society that was build there.
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Some Person Must have missed that part. Thanks for pointing out.
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