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This is my attempt to redirect a conversation about addiction and drugs that started in the vaccinations thread (Vaccinations.).
What you're saying is clear. It strikes me as a bit naïve though to expect people to treat different people in different circumstances as equal to each other. It's not realistic or practical. Really, being discerning and treating different circumstances differently seems to me more useful and productive.
The government isn't here really to be an empathic entity. So long as it has a solid understanding of circumstances it is dealing with, and addresses problems effectively and to the overall benefit of the polity, and all citizens in so far as is possible, then it is serving its function.
I think you want to make a distinction between the way the government treats the addicted in one situation ("the opioid crisis") versus another ("the war on drugs"). That may be. I don't want to touch that at the moment. It's a big can of worms.
I expect government and people in general to have an EQUAL understanding/empathy re. ADDICTION, regardless of the particulars of the victims, the substance, OR the "dealer."
Is THAT clear enough for you?
What you're saying is clear. It strikes me as a bit naïve though to expect people to treat different people in different circumstances as equal to each other. It's not realistic or practical. Really, being discerning and treating different circumstances differently seems to me more useful and productive.
The government isn't here really to be an empathic entity. So long as it has a solid understanding of circumstances it is dealing with, and addresses problems effectively and to the overall benefit of the polity, and all citizens in so far as is possible, then it is serving its function.
I think you want to make a distinction between the way the government treats the addicted in one situation ("the opioid crisis") versus another ("the war on drugs"). That may be. I don't want to touch that at the moment. It's a big can of worms.