> Unfulfilling and hopeless
It's the human condition.
Yeah, and that would surely cause most humans to empathise with other humans suffering from addiction, and help those others the best way they can, by a) reducing harm to the addicts and b) helping them overcome their addiction. The fact that this c) also reduces incident crime levels and reduces suffering for yet another group of humans is surely a bonus.
'Pragmatic' in this case is referring to taking actions you consider morally questionable, but with the aim of reduction of harm all around.
I don't see how this is robotic or lacking in empathy. Quite the opposite.
> It's the human condition.
It's really not, not for 90% of a given community unless there is something else seriously wrong with that community.
Does that not seem pragmatic to you?
While we give them those drugs we can make sure they're not getting anything nasty or weird in there so they don't just up and die, and we can help them recover when the opportunity presents.
But if you'd rather live with more petty crime, and more expensive policing, more or less for the sake of being spiteful... well you get where we are today.
> If you just make being high all day and acceptable and low cost life decision, you could easily see 90% of people in some communities choose that option.
I think that would be a damning verdict on how unfulfilling and hopeless those communities have become regardless of drugs.