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Originally Posted by loramin
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Excellent questions.
I only eat grass-fed/free-range meat because I believe that factory farming causes unnecessary suffering, so that answers #1. However I also have nothing against killing animals, even though that obviously involves some suffering, so clearly I'm in favor of minimizing suffering when it can't be eliminated completely (#2).
But then you have #3, and no I do not understand that safe injection sites subsidize suffering. Drug addicts don't think "gee, I could be addicted to smack today, but I'm out of clean needles ... well, I guess I better sober up". What they'll actually say is "I'm out of clean needles, guess I'll use a dirty one." And without a doubt dirty needles lead to disease, and disease leads to suffering.
So back at you: do you understand that not giving addicts access to clean needles means they will get diseases and suffer?
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of course. how do you not understand that addiction causes suffering though? and how do you not see safe injection sites as supporting addiction? they are an accessory in the act.
safe injection sites curtail potential symptoms, while supporting the illness. it perpetuates long term suffering and the conditions leading the problems it seeks to minimize. how is that rational or moral?