2/ ...but I AM going to suggest that we regretfully don't do much of anything. Because there's nothing that we can do. People drink themselves to death. People smoke themselves to death. People eat themselves to death. People screw themselves to death. /shrug Can't stop them
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3/ I support everyone's right to screw in gay bath houses, get AIDS, and die...if that's what they want. I support everyone's right to snort oxy and shoot heroin. I support everyone's right to drink their liver into a rotting sponge. I'm not going to laugh at them. It's sad.
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4/ ...but what of it? There are a lot sad things out there. People gonna people, yo.
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5/ Concur. I obviously want to end the war on some drugs. The context that might be missing is local NH politics, where the phrase "the opioid epidemic" is always the prefix to "new social programs". https://twitter.com/octal/status/1049292972888604673 …
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7/ There's a sign you sometimes see in independent mechanic's shops "if my competitor charges less, I won't disagree with him about the value of his service".
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8/ I think of this every time I see someone riding a motorcycle without a helmet. "If that guy calculates the value of his brain as so low, what data do I have to disagree with him?"
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9/ Same with heroin. "If that's how much they value their own life, how could I possibly be arrogant enough to disagree with them?"
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One problem I see that might need to be addressed beyond your point is when people become addicted to legitimately prescribed opioids, like from back surgery. We should probably include addiction help in medical care standards for those people.
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*OR* lobby to make prescribing pain pills less regulated so people can indugle in their self destructive behavior in a safer and taxable way.
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