Re: drug use by our homeless family members or friends?, lets adopt them

"Brother Nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> roid wrote:
> > Brother Nate wrote
> > > I don't do it mainly because I couldn't afford to support
> > > their $40/day habit out of my pocket, much less theirs,
> > > and I wouldn't be that much more inclined to make myself
> > > their doormat if the drugs cost a lot less.
>
> > what if it were your son.
> > i'm talking familys here.
>
> If it was my son I'd try to avoid telling anything to
> any police authority, and I would DEMAND (not ask) that
> they go into drug rehab immediately.  If they're clean
> and sober they're welcome to a place under my roof, but
> I am not going to be a party to their self-destruction.
>
> > > > my insulin is %100 government funded.
> > > > if i coudln't afford it, i'd steal from you to get it.
>
> > > And when you did so, I would call the cops and watch with
> > > quiet satisfaction while they hauled your ass off to jail.
> > >
> > > I don't care what medical condition you have - it doesn't
> > > entitle you to steal from anybody.
>
> > most people would disagree and sympathize with the man who steals a loaf
of
> > bread, or the medication to cure his child.
> > coz you gotta think of the childreeeeen.  look at their cute eyes ^_^
>
> Children deserve better providers than ones who set an
> example like that.  In a nation with the social services
> we provide stealing is only a short-cut for the morally
> bankrupt.

you trust your government to tell you what is and isn't moral in a medical
sense?
whatever happened to doctors eh, when the government tells you what
medicines to take.