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Lucr3tius t1_iyduh7j wrote

tbh I have a very negative opinion of the poor, and generally regard their plight as the result of some character flaw or bad choices. It was never a mystery to anyone growing up over the last 40 years that drugs and alcohol are bad for you, but this is the case for the vast majority of the poor. There are some circumstances where some drug dealer doctor gets their patient hooked on opioids and then they start doing heroine when the prescriptions run out, but even in those circumstances you should inquire about what your doctor is prescribing you and why. People who have no innate suspicion of doctors and other professionals that exploit customers aren't worthy of empathy, because you can't care more about someone than they care for themselves.

So yea, I'm a bad person I guess. Fuck the poor.

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Baby_Hippos_Swimming t1_iye17hu wrote

Have you considered that the stress and anxiety from financial insecurity could cause someone to self medicate with drugs and alcohol?

You might have your causation wrong in the correlation.

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Lucr3tius t1_iye28rl wrote

>could cause someone to

That isn't how volition works. If you make bad choices its not just some random cause and effect externality that you had no control over. Drug addiction doesn't "just happen." We all deal with stress and anxiety, and we all have to find coping mechanisms. If you choose a self destructive coping mechanism its on you.

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