I agree with the last paragraph entirely! But I've spent most of my life living in countries where harm minimisation was the catchphrase for drug addicts, and waves of thefts only ever followed closures of services that forced prices up.
And while I agree that people choose to be idiots with their bodies, I also think that most western countries give shit-house drug education. My teenaged friends are all pretty clean because they have heard my reams of stories about my parents' generation's usage, and seen the equations whereby irregular E usage at dance parties comes out as more expensive than an annual international holiday, with the latter making you more interesting and more likely to have sex (safe, of course). And then there's the hydro pot conversation ...
I do believe in harm minimisation, it keeps people alive and injecting rooms keep needles off the streets, both of which are good things. I'd like to keep cigarette butts off the streets, too, given they are one of the major environmental pollutants produced by normal people, but there's less social condemnation there. Blessed be the smokers who dispose of their butts away from waterways!
That said, I never lock my bike up outside anymore, and would never dream of having my laptop anywhere out of my sightlines or in its hidey hole at home.
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And while I agree that people choose to be idiots with their bodies, I also think that most western countries give shit-house drug education. My teenaged friends are all pretty clean because they have heard my reams of stories about my parents' generation's usage, and seen the equations whereby irregular E usage at dance parties comes out as more expensive than an annual international holiday, with the latter making you more interesting and more likely to have sex (safe, of course). And then there's the hydro pot conversation ...
I do believe in harm minimisation, it keeps people alive and injecting rooms keep needles off the streets, both of which are good things. I'd like to keep cigarette butts off the streets, too, given they are one of the major environmental pollutants produced by normal people, but there's less social condemnation there. Blessed be the smokers who dispose of their butts away from waterways!
That said, I never lock my bike up outside anymore, and would never dream of having my laptop anywhere out of my sightlines or in its hidey hole at home.