I actually went and read the slate article - they say that calling it "natural" is feeding into anti-vaccination people.
Seriously. It reads like soviet propaganda.
"By endorsing breast-feeding as natural, they say, breast-feeding advocates are reinforcing the idea that natural is A) something that actually exists and B) healthier. "
Abbot only ever does what he thinks will get him elected again. Right now, what he's doing aligns with what I would want him to do - but he's not doing it because it's right. He's only doing it because it's popular. Make no mistake, if he thought mandatory gender confusion classes from K-12 was popular, he'd do that too.
No one can argue that harm reduction is a decent FIRST STEP. Get someone to use less - then gradually transition them to sobriety. The problem is that we have governments that JUST want to use harm reduction and think that a beating heart is the only end goal - it's not.
You are right that there's more to it than that - but it DOES include "safe smoking kits" which is - free crack pipes.
As someone who works as an addiction treatment professional - "harm reduction" is what you do when you can't do anything else. It's the band-aid on the sucking chest wound. "We can't actually help them, so let's at least reduce the deaths." Sure, they may be still living in poverty killing themselves and others slowly and becoming a literal blight on the world - but at least their hearts are still beating!
I was angry, I was upset about the world, I was fully of rage and resentment.
It really did look like the world was trying to tell me that everything good was really bad and everything bad was not only good, but stunning and brave.
Then I got invited to a Church, and I haven't looked back. Now, I realize that, not only is all of this going according to God's plan, but Christ has my back, I'm on the winning side, and I'm NOT imagining things! The world really IS trying to make good bad and bad good.
Would it make more sense to print this in spanish?