While I agree with many of your indictments of liberal policies, your statement about drug addicts gives you away as someone who has little experience with addi

While I agree with many of your indictments of liberal policies, your statement about drug addicts gives you away as someone who has little experience with addicts, except perhaps from a distance. Anyone who has spent time around more than a handful of addicts knows that the addict experience spans the range of human personality types: slothful, industrious, peaceful, violent, smart, and dumb. Go to an AA meeting and you will see them all, just as you do in everyday society. And while there are certain personality traits that many addicts share (impulsiveness, etc), these traits have nothing to do with laziness or industriousness. So while rewarding sloth makes for happy lazy people, the only thing that causes drug addicts is... drug addiction. And its causes -- mostly biological, but also situational -- go far beyond what anyone could describe in an HN comment.