So far today I’ve seen two variations on the same theme show up as Facebook memes.
First, “They give Narcan for free to drug users because it will keep them from dying. So why don’t they give free insulin to diabetics?”
My response was
Because you only get Narcan when you OD? I mean, it’s not like you get Narcan every day. Because if you do, it’s amazing you’re not dead anyway.
My paramedic niece has related stories of being called out more than once to Narcan the same person and wondering what the point of the exercise is.
FWIW I’m going to guess that it isn’t actually free. Somebody is paying for it, if not the dopehead’s insurance (and there’s a laughable thought), then you and me when we pay our premiums and taxes.
Then I saw this one: “If methadone is free to addicts because they have a disease, why is chemo not free for cancer patients?”
I didn’t respond to that one, but it’s the same stupid question wrapped up in the same stupid logical fallacy. You’re not talking about apples and apples here. You’re talking about an attempt to modify an anti-social behavior versus trying to cure a fatal disease.
Plus, heroin addiction is not a disease, no matter how the proggy left wants to soft-shoe it. Becoming a junkie required a positive (or negative, depending on your viewpoint) decision on the part of the junkie to become a junkie. Becoming a junkie didn’t happen because of a virus or a bacteria. Becoming a junkie isn’t like catching a cold or flu, or getting Ebola.* And it happens regardless of any attitude on the proto-junkie’s part of “I’m strong, I can quit any time.” Yeah. Addiction doesn’t work that way. The hell of it is, I was just sitting here thinking about alcoholism and how it’s considered a disease…but I don’t know of anyone who gives away free alcohol rehab the way, say, the city of New York hands out free methadone.** And the consumption of alcohol is, at least, legal and accepted by society.
Let’s think for a moment about anti-social behavior. Being a junkie is definitely anti-social. Being a junkie means that you probably lie, cheat, and steal for your next high. By the time you need treatment, in most cases you’re probably diseased, have poor hygiene, and are probably living on the streets or damn close to it. Even if you’re not that bad, you’ve probably assured that nobody can trust you, and you’ve probably let down everyone who knows you, including your family and closest friends.
Or you’re just a fucking clueless dickhead or cuntwaffle doing meth or whatever the fuck is the drug of choice down on the Ohio River these days. And yes, I include the long-term unemployed who have given up and turned to drugs as an escape. You’re a bunch of fuckheads. Man (or woman) the fuck up and make the best of your situation. Yeah, I know, easy for me to say. So I’ll say it again: Stop acting like an animal and stand up like a human being, look adversity square in the eye, and say to it, “Fuck you, I’m not letting you get the best of me.”
Where was I? Oh, yes.
I question the morality inherent in handing out these drugs to junkies for “free” in an attempt to wake them the fuck up and set the on the right path. The standard proggie claim is that it is our moral and ethical duty to help these people. But I do not believe it to be either moral or ethical to make me pay for a heroin addict’s methadone treatment, or for the Narcan for the stupid fucks who OD on the latest tainted shit that came out of the local dealer’s drug lab. Because it is not moral or ethical to force me or anyone else to pay to correct other people’s stupidity. And it is willful stupidity! You cannot say that people in this modern age aren’t aware of the dangers posed by deciding to do drugs.
My generation grew up getting the “don’t do drugs” mantra pounded into us by parents, teachers, TV, radio, you name it. “This is your brain, this is your brain on drugs.” Who the fuck wants to go around with a scrambled egg for a brain? Life is a raging bitch, but we are supposed to stand tall and DEAL, not resort to booze or drugs or any other stupidity to dull the pain and make the hours pass like minutes. We were taught that it was stupid to hand your life over to drugs or anything like them, including alcohol. And yet, so many stupid people refused to accept that lesson even when it was being beaten into their brains on a daily basis. Why are we coddling these people with treatments when the record shows that they almost all backslide back into addiction?*** Why don’t we just let them take their exit? Or if you prefer stark reality to metaphor, why don’t we just let them fucking die? It’s clearly what they seem to want.
My sense of morality is not twinged by any need or desire to succor these people, because history and common sense indicate that they will simply go right back to what they were fucking up before. We are told that we have to break the cycle in order to cure what ails them. But there are two ways to break the cycle, and one of them is to simply let nature take its course. You OD’d? Bye. You’re a junkie? Go ahead and sedate yourself to death. You pussified coward.
And now we have these memes.
Because the progressives are frantic to try to find a way to force us into single-payer, so they can have that much more control over our lives. And as usual with progressives, they are lying through their teeth to try to win us over to their point of view.
Because progressives are a bunch of fucking cuntwaffles.****
Fuck them. Taxation is theft, and control over my life is something they can’t have.
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* It is, however, very much akin to contracting HIV if you indulge in the kind of anti-social behavior that gets you into a situation where you can contract HIV. And by this I’m not including the people who contract it through no fault of their own, e.g., through blood transfusions, or sex with a partner who hasn’t been upfront with them about their own anti-social behavior, or any of the other ways that folks unknowingly manage to pick up HIV. Or herpes. Or gonorrhea. Or syphilis. Or chlamydia. My, the list just goes on and on, doesn’t it?
** Yes, I understand that the methadone is handed out in a clinic situation and you have to go to the clinic to get the shot or pill or whatever, because they also don’t want you to end up addicted to methadone, which is just about as nasty a drug as heroin. Before they figured that out, people did in fact switch from being hooked on heroin to being hooked on methadone.
*** Or go back on the streets to get another hit of what the fuck ever they did that made them OD in the first place, in the case of Narcan.
**** I just like the sound of “cuntwaffles”.