Living in NH, I hear a ton about "the opioid epidemic". There's a libertarian macho flash that goes "ha ha, let them just OD and die; FREEDOM, bitches!!! lulz!" I'm not going to say that.
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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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