• Troy
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    6 hours ago

    The subset of doctors that overprescribe narcotics because they’re getting kickbacks from the drug companies? Fuck 'em. The rest are fine :)

    I’m not aware of any bartenders selling narcotics (using the commonly assumed definition of the word) – unless you’re being intentionally obtuse by using the medical definitiion which would include alcohol. In particular, do you refer to your bartender as your narcotics dealer?

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      I don’t refer to anyone with something as ridiculous as “a narcotics dealer”.

      The subset of doctors that overprescribe narcotics

      So you know they all have the power to prescribe narcotics, and they use that power, most using it responsibly, yes? You don’t feel that a majority of doctors are a problem, despite them having the capacity to give even small children powerful narcotics? Do you disagree with this?

      So it’s not the capacity to deal narcotics which you’re objecting to. It’s the capacity combined with a lack of morality and actively doing bad things. Do you disagree with this?

      Alcohol is in every sense of the word a narcotic. That’s not me being obtuse, it’s you using a word with the intent of it having a certain connotation, and you wish for that connotation to be faaaaar away from a thing it literally describes, even though that thing is the most narcotic of them all, which is something you don’t even understand, because you don’t even know what “narcotic” means, prescriptively.

      So it’s not actually inebriation or the dealing of narcotics youre opposed to. You’re opposed to people who deal narcotics and have bad morals. Do all illicit drug traders have bad morals?

      If you said yes, you’re gonna need to read up on the war on drugs. If you did, that’s only because you’ve been programmed to. And it would be much more beneficial for society, drugs users, drinkers, people who are sober, the world over, if we stop it with this asinine “war on drugs” which itself is propping up drug cartels and the crimes that follow.

      So if you support the prohibition of drugs, you’re literally supporting “the narcotix dealers” you’re referring to.