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Originally Posted by Titan
It is a moral obligation to help sick people that can't help themselves. If the only way to help them is to provide a safe place then that is the first step. How can you argue it is more moral to make them shoot up in an alley. I would rather they get clean too. They can't or won't so we should just turn our back on them? That to me seems the far more immoral choice.
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I guess I'm just not understanding how it is helping them overcome their addiction. You give them a clean, safe place to shoot up, great. That gets them off the needle how exactly? Society does not have an obligation to get other people high, and simply waving your hands and saying that you are doing something good does not change reality. I think that's the issue with your typical white, middle class North American these days. They have no real social issues to fight for of their own, so they adopt those of others. However, since it doesn't really affect them, they don't care if what they are doing truly has any positive value, just as long as it feels like it does. That's basically what is happening here. Just keep shovelling #$%@ against the tide and tell yourself that you're doing something good.
Strange times indeed where some can actually try to argue that helping someone else get high is a moral obligation.