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start compassionately treating the root psychological causes How? Couldn't limiting access of an addicted person to the substance or activity the person is add

• Falkon1313 14y ago
  Limiting access to a substance or activity doesn't address the problem, which is the behavior. If the person in question ends up replacing it with a safer substance or activity, that may be somewhat better, but they may instead end up replacing it with something even more dangerous. It's a gamble and it doesn't even address the problem. Blaming inanimate objects for the actions of humans never really helps. It would be better to address the actual humans, their actions, and the causes instead. We just don't know how to do that yet. As a society, we aren't smart enough.
• SoftwareMaven 14y ago
  Well, not throwing them in jail with ludicrous sentences is probably a good start. I would look to Portugal for a template.
• Wintamute 14y ago
  Unless the activity is demonstrably harmful to others nobody should have the right to actively limit or prohibit anybodies access to anything. Much less criminalise. How can it be moral to interfere with someone's autonomy like that? All we have the right to do is educate about the dangers and then help if help is welcome.
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