To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use

Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by arp242 on Monday December 11, 2023 @10:34PM (#38609077)

> Do you think an addict considers the closure rates on assault cases before harming a stranger?

Actually, yes. These people are not instinct-driven animals completely incapable of thought.

Similarly, if you know that drunk driving is very likely to get you caught then you will do that less than if you know there's 0% of getting caught.

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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by shermantanktop on Monday December 11, 2023 @10:51PM (#38609201)

You can tell a lot about how someone thinks by listening for denial of agency. The CEO had to do it; that drug addict had no choice; he had to defend his honor; she couldn’t lie.

Sometimes people have only one choice, but they almost always have agency.

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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by 1shooner on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:54AM (#38611529)

Your experience of addiction must be significantly different than mine.

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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by shermantanktop on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @06:18PM (#38620201)

I was referring to the language people use to convert other humans into objects or automatons.

But if you deny the addict any agency, you deny the possibility of eventual recovery. One could also point to the Sacklers as the ones with agency in that scenario. But somebody made choices; it didn’t just happen and there’s nothing that anyone could have done.

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