Governments are shirking their responsibility, or succumbing to corruption, and throwing vulnerable people to the wolves.
People online say “that never happens”, but I see it all the time in real life.
Why improve society when you can drug people up instead?
You’re right in pointing out those things though, it doesn’t have to be a drug to be damaging.
I don't want to live in a world where we dump people with addiction issues on the street, but certainly giving them welfare or something enables them after a certain point as well. Hard issue.
At the end of the day we’d be better off without most vices. Most vulnerable people aren’t going to be able to function when drugs, gambling and the like are a free for all regardless of supports given to them.
> At the end of the day we’d be better off without most vices
Who decides what's a vice and what isn't?
> others need heavily regulation
Who decides what gets regulated and how heavily?
It's usually the people with the most to gain personaly who vie to become one of the deciders. They approach such decisions as opportunities rather than tough, morally burdensome responsibilities. And it's the machiavellians and narcissists that work the hardest for it.