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Originally Posted by chemgear
It's become socially unacceptable to call for law and order. The pendulum has swung completely against it.
We worry more about partial solutions like handing out free drugs and making sure people are free to continue killing themselves rather than complete supports (heck we keep cherry picking mere parts of the Portugal example just like mentioned above).
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Not true, even though it may seem like it. Here in Kamloops we just elected a complete ####wit mayor straight out of the "lets get tough on these people", Trump-style mold because people want tough action. He has been banned from visiting shelters after showing up unannounced too many times and if he could he would load them on train cars and send them out if town.
The people that just want this problem to "go away" are loud and proud. Its fortunate that they can't just do what they want because they also already would have privatized everything and built an open pit mine atop a hill 2km from the city limits above town, but I digress...
The root of this problem is corporate greed, and the drug companies that pushed dangerous addictive pills into the market for profit despite all evidence against should be made to pay to clean up the mess they made. It's a global problem and ultimately just another in a long list of examples of how unregulated capitalism and corporate greed is destroying human society.
Edit to add: chemgear, I think you are correct about the half-measures, like others in this thread have said , too.