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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by sukilot on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:08PM (#20780582)
> People don't want to be drug addicts and live a poor existence to feed a habit.

Non-addicts don't. Addicts do. Addictive people are stuck in the middle oscillating.

Free will + mind-altering drugs is a fundamentally hard problem.

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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by notus on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:33PM (#20780919)
I definitely disagree. The oscillation is not out of actually wanting to be addicts, it is because they lack the coping skills to deal with trying to get clean and dealing with the world on someone's terms other than their own. There is a big difference between wanting to be something and feeling like you have no other alternatives other than to become that something.
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