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2016 Postmortem

former9thward

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14. The problem with allowing people to put any substance into "their own fucking bodies"

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #9)

Thu Jan 5, 2017, 08:48 PM

Jan 2017

is that society has to pay for the aftermath. Society has to pay for destroyed bodies and minds --- and for decades until they die. Society has to pay for destroyed families and fucked up children that result. People love to moan about the the problem of the homeless "What kind of society are we?" but ignore the fact that most homeless are the result of drug abuse. I favor so-called left libertarianism of allowing people to take whatever shit they want but left libertarianism also says society has no obligation to clean up the mess afterwards.

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