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The very definition of "addict" or "addiction" is that they have lost the ability to choose anything.
For the same reason why we do not grant children the right to choose anything, we should not grant addicts any rights at all, because they are incompetent.
Those who MAKE them incompetent have deprived them of rights.
A knife is a tool, a very useful one. I keep one with me almost all the time.
Do I lose my freedoms because I have a knife? No, it expands my freedoms. I can do things I could not otherwise do without it.
Do I lose the ability to choose when I have a knife? Of course not.
You don't know me.
Alcohol sold for consumption is one of the worst evils in our society. It SHOULD be banned, and the distribution of it should be a capital offense.
Alcohol IS useful as a medicine or for all sorts of things. But those who hawk it as "It makes you popular with the ladies" are a great evil and plague on the world. Those who say "I can't function without alcohol" are addicted to it, and those who got them addicted to it should be held accountable for that.
Granted, alcohol addiction is MUCH easier to overcome than, say, opium or other drugs.
Tobacco is the same way -- it creates a dependency that is extremely difficult to break.
Factually false. Obviously (and fortunately), you have never been, or lived with, an addict.
The hardcore addicts who have been using heroin, cocaine, meth, etc., and enter rehab aren't magically free of their addiction because they happened to choose to get their life back together. They are addicts. And they have freedom of choice. They used it to get clean. It happens every. Single. Day. Celebrate it.
Then you my friend are in a group of one, on an island all by yourself.
This concludes our interaction about this topic.
Propaganda. Having lost the point, you revert to pointless argument for argument's sake.
I see you are a prophet then.
That's sarcasm by the way.
I find it very interesting that you are incapable of arguing without resorting to logical fallacy after logical fallacy.
Regardless, having worked with addicts, I know all too well to set expectations to low, very very low. Addicts lie, they cheat, they steal. You cannot trust them. That's why you need someone to check in on them every day. You teach them that they need to stop using, and you teach them what to do when they do start using again anyway. It's not so bad with tobacco -- the worst they do is shorten their life and make things smell bad. But with other harder drugs, they all too often end up in deep trouble.
Case in point: Recently a man came to our church and gave up alcohol. Things were fine for a long while. Then he started drinking a little -- no big deal right? Then he cleaned up, but got drunk again. Rinse repeat for a few years. Guess where he is now? Thankfully he's in jail for getting his 3rd DUI. I say thankfully, because even in this small rural town it's not uncommon to hear about so-and-so dying from a drunk driver. Thankfully he is in jail because he could've been another statistic, or another box in the morgue. What is the chance he will ever stop drinking completely? From experience -- very low. Maybe after a few years in prison he will rethink his priorities. Maybe now he will take his addiction seriously. I don't know, because most don't.
The morgue disagrees. The chance of an opium user to survive past a certain point, even with rehabilitation, is closer to 0% than 100%. Yes, they often get clean for a certain period of time. Then what happens? They start using again. If the first time doesn't kill them, then the second time they clean up and start using again will.
Having known people who have become addicted, having known the rare addict who has recovered -- and knowing that part of recovery is knowing you are an addict -- and being too scared to touch alcohol let alone other things because I know for a fact addiction runs in my family -- It's much better to lock up all the drug dealers, and execute the pushers, at least.