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Because it’s driven by intense desperation. You don’t help addicts by ambushing them, you help them by understanding what’s caused them to be the way that they are and how to break their system of dependence. You can’t advance as a society without being able to break unhealthy cycles. So yes, monstrous but sympathy-worthy
It makes JD even more of a piece of shit because how do you grow up around something like that and then go to work for the party who's protecting those companies from being held liable for their epidemic. This fentanyl bullshit is all a smokescreen to protect pharma and make people forget the problem was HOME GROWN.
I'm sure you don't mean it that way, but I think even the phrase "be the way that they are" is lacking empathy and looking at it the wrong way. It's not about the way that they are; it's about the way that they are handling the stressors in their life.
I lacked the verbiage to describe what I meant in the 30 seconds I had available to reply. It was just vaguely phrased, but you’re right
No. I said that a medical professional who steals from patients is not sympathy-worthy, and that is not ambushing anyone. Also I didn't say that people who are dealing with addiction are not worthy of sympathy. She is however, an asshole because she is a medical professional who harmed patients. "You don’t help addicts by ambushing them, you help them by understanding what’s caused them to be the way that they are and how to break their system of dependence." ---you, putting a lot of words and concepts into my post that I didn't say or endorse and that makes what I said look negative and makes you look good. You can't advance a society without breaking your own unhealthy cycles of lying for Internet points.
You’re digging into my extreme time crunch comment and finding hard nuggets. I assure you, each and every one of them was a kernel of corn. I wasn’t attacking you, I just had 30 seconds to explain addiction counseling to someone without a visible understanding of it.
"I just had 30 seconds to explain addiction counseling to someone without a visible understanding of it."
Lol you've completely misrepresented what I said in my comments and supplanted your own reality to, again, make yourself look good. And a visible understanding of addiction counseling? Lol. Lamo even. We at no point were talking about addiction counseling.
I don’t mean to sound rude, but I don’t see this conversation going anywhere positive. You’re entirely too upset and I’m entirely too indifferent. If anyone asks, tell them you won this conversation and I’ll corroborate. Here’s an updoot