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slight rant

Posted by Tamar on August 27, 2005, at 6:41:58

In reply to Re: Please be sensitive » gardenergirl, posted by AdaGrace on August 26, 2005, at 21:54:33

Uh-oh, I feel a rant coming on…

I just don’t think drug addicts are psychologically able to work. And possibly not physically either. I’d want to look at individual cases… and I’d want to ask: why is this person a drug addict? It’s too easy to say that people are just bad and take drugs out of badness. However, I think there are reasons why people use drugs… reasons like poverty, abuse, illness… and the reason many people don’t seek treatment is that treatments costs a lot of money and not everyone has it. Free programs are difficult to get into. Treatment isn’t a wonder cure; if the reasons for drug use are still there, people often go back to it. And ultimately treatment probably doesn’t seem like a viable option to people who just don’t believe their lives could be any better. I would like to see more compassion in society for drug users. They are human beings like the rest of us.

As for other categories of people who live on welfare… I think the percentage of people who abuse the system is probably tiny. Getting welfare isn’t easy; there are a lot of hoops to jump through. And I think there are probably more people who need it but don’t get it than people who get it undeservedly.

Sorry for the rant…

Tamar



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