What would you do? And an observation about 'crime' in the 21st century [View all]

[The Straight Story]

This all came about over a conversation I had with a neighbor today and his sister:

I won't go into details about it all other than to say his sister is ill, I helped him with his computer, and certain things came up.

Long story short - she is disabled, can't get into see her Dr. until next month (she is on MOLINA here in Ohio), and can't sleep.

So while on face book he told her he would bring over some of his sleeping pills that his Dr. had prescribed for him and he has not needed for a time (and are the same ones she had taken in the past when she had similar issues and cannot get right now until she sees someone).

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Given how the government seems to monitor things (unlike back in the days when people called each other on land lines) and such conversations are monitored and that technically he is committing a crime....well, what should we as a society do in situations like this where two people are having a private conversation over the internet about one giving the other one prescribed medications (not selling, etc)?

We have a failure of the medical system on her part (she needs help now), we have a surplus of a med she has taken before.

Day in and out on FB, E-Mails, other chat programs (from Skype to IRC to text messaging) we have people hooking up with others to provide (if you will) things that are 'illegal' - from pot to movies to music to meds.

Should we give the government more funds and people to go over all such communication and prosecute people? If so, I am guessing our jails would fill up and have more people in them than out of them. Not to mention our court systems, attorneys, clerks, defense attorneys, and so on.

We could go through all internet traffic and such at a great financial cost to us all and enforce all of our laws (just like we could put black boxes in cars to give you a speeding ticket if you go one mph over the speed limit). Watch a song on YouTube that is copyrighted? Get your information and give you a fine.

How much do we really want to spend and do to enforce our laws? Not saying having laws are bad - but as we become more of a society that can monitor every conservation people have with each other how should we use it?