Comment on YouTube Is Monetizing Human Suffering at an Open Air Drug Market

• VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  use of drugs should be decriminalized, but it should also come with other responsibilities

  Do you want to do that with alcohol and tobacco too, or just the ones that the rich and powerful consider taboo?

  For example, a government organized intervention and mandatory rehabilitation.

  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.

  Depending on how much money the person has, they should be required to pay for it

  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.

  We should have a welfare state. It should also come with responsibilities.

  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.

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  • r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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    • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf ⁨8⁩ ⁨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?

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      • r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Even if someone is a ward of the state, they still have rights and must be treated humanely.

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      • r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Progressives who don’t believe in God support murdering disabled people through programs like MAID, which is just rehash of Action T4.

        Disabled people with families who take care of them don’t need government assistance. Unfortunately there are some people who need the government to take care of them.

        I should also point out that if someone relies on their family for care, they only have the rights that their family allows them.

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Prove” according to who? You? What if I think you’ve forfeited the right to bodily autonomy?

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• Wakmrow@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Means testing doesn’t work.

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