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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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