Okay, that’s not really compassion. People don’t need to deserve or earn compassion.
I do have compassion for people who die of diseases or mental illnesses and stuff. But drug use I really don’t have sympathy for.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Lemon@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
You have 600 or so posts since you joined on July 17, 2024. This comes to 4-5 posts per day, and I assume you spend time engaging with the comments as well. If you wanted to stop posting here today, could you keep it up? Do you feel more satisfied while you engage with the community?
Now imagine these feelings times 1000, maybe even more. Your boredom cannot be satiated by posting if you decide to stop your addiction, and maybe you may even think “just one more time, it wont hurt”
This is what drugs are like, usually just one more time does not kill but they cannot make reasonable decisions due to the addiction anyways.
People who start using drugs because of mental illnesses can overdose too, and this will not be known because “it was just another overdose”. In this case dont you agree that the mental illness was the thing that killed them and they would not start using drugs if the healthcare system did not fail them? Do you think they deserve empathy or not?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Where do you draw the line between mental illness and substance abuse disorder? Are you aware that the latter is considered by pretty much everyone on the planet, to be included in the former?