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Do you have kids?

Imagine a kid, who has vivid memories of getting vaccinated and anyways knows sharp things are terribly painful, seeing a guy stick a needle in his arm. That's the stuff kid's nightmares are made for.

I'll give my kid (as young as two) a bill to give a homeless. I don't want them ever to not see the humanity of any individual. But I do not accept that their innocence is stolen from them!

"between a guy quietly enjoying a beer on a park bench"

I don't mind a quiet beer in public spaces. It's one of the things I enjoy about Savanah GA. But Americans (I'm not) seem unable to quietly enjoy a beer in a public spaces without becoming obnoxiously drunk.

Thankfully, I left the West Coast after three months. Where I live the police will show up in a jiffy for doing drugs in a playground.

What most impacted me was a homeless man that collapsed and everyone walked over him as if he weren't there. What humanity! West Coasters will allow this man to destroy himself with drugs and booze, but will walk over him as he collapses.

As an addict, quite a bit.

As a casual user, keep it indoors and I don't really care. I'll still throw your pusher in jail for a while.

I don't see how.

Calling a person who merely holds different opinions that you a moron is not constructive.

Applying harsh, but constitutional, punishments for people that committed crimes that caused the deaths of tens of thousands a year to enrich themselves is an opinion.

One that I'm more than willing to discuss the merits of.

"by making desperate people’s lives worse."

Few people talk about "making peoples worse" as the mechanism to solving the drug problem (there are, but they are not a majority).

People might disagree with solutions, but calling others morons hardly seems constructive

(btw, I'm against criminalizing addict. Though I would have CEOs of opioid Pharma shot, and opioid pushing Dr. pressed into indentured medical service - so I"m hardly a softy)

1. Your resultant behavior in public 2. The consequences to everyone of your addiction.

Because having junkies and drunks meandering about significantly decreases the liability of the public space to the majority of people.

Life isn't like in college full of debauchery and little of how our actions affect others . The public space is a space where we all have the responsibility to ensure that our enjoyment doesn't trample on others. Including:

- Not speeding on a street. (it's not a road, it's a street) - Cleaning up for yourself - Not making a nuisance of yourself - Not taking drugs/booze at the playground [0] - Ignoring the "dogs on a leash" or "no dogs allowed" sign

[0] Don't worry. If you're intoxicated or doing drugs in my kids playground, I'm calling the police. Why does my kid have to dodge your drunk ass or your syringes to get to the slide?

You can get 2L Strongbow for 3 pounds in the the UK? Awesome!

If you permit the assumption that homeless are more likely to engage in criminal activity [0], the city of Seattle has significantly reduced enforcement of crime, including violent crime.

Therefore, ppl who would otherwise being in jail for crimes are living on the streets.

There was a documentary about this done by a local Seattle TV station. I don't know how reliable it is, but at the end it actually gave fairly humanitarian and progressive solution to the problem, despite spending most of the show arguing lax and progressive policing attitudes created the problem to begin with [1]

[0] by, a criminal being more likely to become homeless, or by desperation driving the homeless to crime

[1] Their proposed solution, inspired by a program in RI (? maybe ME), is to treat drug addiction as a disease to be treated by having effective programs.