Comment on YouTube Is Monetizing Human Suffering at an Open Air Drug Market
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
usually without being arrested by the police
That’s the good part, though. Problematic drug use is a health problem and should be treated as such rather than a criminal and moral one.
And that’s not even mentioning what often happens when cops interact with members of any marginalized group…
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 11 months ago
I agree that the use of drugs should be decriminalized, but it should also come with other responsibilities. For example, a government organized intervention and mandatory rehabilitation. Depending on how much money the person has, they should be required to pay for it. Or they should be expected to pay it back over time.
We should have a welfare state. It should also come with responsibilities.
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
Do you want to do that with alcohol and tobacco too, or just the ones that the rich and powerful consider taboo?
One size fits all mandates are a recipe for disaster. Depending on the individual case, you end up either violating the patient’s right to bodily autonomy, refusing needed help because the mandate says it’s not time yet or both.
Better to leave the medical decisions to medical professionals. They’re much better at it than even the best politicians and/or parliamentarians.
Absolutely not. Means testing like that breeds resentment and often leads people between a rock and a hard place where they’re too wealthy to get it for free but not wealthy enough that they won’t have make sacrifices they might not think to be worth it.
Rich or poor, cost should never be a determining factor in whether or not to seek needed healthcare.
People have enough responsibilities already without the government making demands in order to give them healthcare that they need.
When someone needs help battling addiction, the caring thing isn’t to check whether they’ve worked hard enough to be allowed to work hard.
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 11 months ago
People forfeit bodily autonomy when they prove that they can’t take care of themselves. At that point they must be placed into conservatorship of someone who can make decisions for them.
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
No. Absolutely not.
Terminal cancer patients can’t take care of themselves either, do you want to take their rights away too?
What about people with disabilities that require constant care, should they become “wards of the state” with fewer rights than children again like in the bad old days?
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
“Prove” according to who? You? What if I think you’ve forfeited the right to bodily autonomy?
Wakmrow@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Means testing doesn’t work.