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Originally Posted by loramin
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Seriously Melon, I don't mean to be rude (especially given our history), but it's not like an addict's family has never thought to help them. So when you essentially say "keep doing what you're doing, even though it doesn't work", what you're really saying is "screw addicts, let them die: that's better than me spending money on freebies for them".
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it's okay, that's not what I said though. this isn't about money.
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It's like telling someone with cancer "Cancer patients don't deserve freebies, just have your family pray for you." In the case of tobacco-smoking lung cancer victims, that's pretty equivalent to needle-using drug addicts. In either case, you can pretend that you care about the cancer patient/addict and their family, but really you're telling them to fuck off and die.
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it's not about freebies, lor. it's about being an implement of suffering. I have three questions for you:
1. do you believe suffering is good?
2. do you believe that suffering should be minimized?
3. do you understand that safe injection sites subsidize suffering?
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I'd argue that we should all be grateful we're not addicted to anything (except an elf sim), we should all have sympathy for both addicts and their families, and we should do whatever we can do to help them ...
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we should.
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especially if that only means funding relatively cheap clean needle programs, so that the addicts can live long enough to get clean.
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it doesn't.