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>Are you claiming that choosing to indulge in drugs that you know are addictive and potentially lethal is without a moral dimension? Are you claiming that tens
by eli_gottlieb 10y ago
>Are you claiming that choosing to indulge in drugs that you know are addictive and potentially lethal is without a moral dimension?
Are you claiming that tens of millions of people got a pop-up box asking them, "Are you sure you want to abandon your children, alienate your family, and ruin your life? This operation is irreversible!"? Remember, one of the major ways in which the opioid epidemic has spread was medical doctors, of all people, prescribing heavy opioids for pain management.
How do you think these things happen?
- duncan_bayne 10y agoIn the case of someone prescribed opioids with insufficient information, no, clearly that isn't informed consent (unless the recipient is sufficiently well educated to know better). They were essentially misled. How do you think the other cases should be judged, though? Say the case of someone who starts using heroin as an adult, without first being prescribed opioids. Would you not treat that as a moral failure on his or her part?