All are substances which can be abused by humans. Heroin's illegality doesn't change that simple fact or make abusing either more/less wrong. So if heroin were legal you'd have no problems paying for needles?!
It's not an epidemic (it's a problem and the risk is there but hardly an epidemic) in at-risk communities and your fear-mongering isn't helping the argument in the least.
So it's not an epidemic in the gay and IV drug user communities? Weird. I could have sworn that when looking at those at risk there is a very high chance of getting HIV if you aren't taking precautions.
Is it an epidemic or not?
Within the gay and IV drug user community it is an epidemic. That is who we are trying to help with clean needles. When taken as a whole HIV and AIDS is not going to infect many Americans. It's only going to infect those at risk and that is not most Americans.
So high-risk = epidemic now? My word, you are stupid. It's sad because you're just hampering the argument for clean needles (which I'm for) with your stupidity and fear-mongering.
Please, they have been warned for decades already. Lets thin the herd already and get over with it. I am not remotely sympathetic to people getting HIV via reckless behavior they are REPEATEDLY warned against.
The callousness of your statement makes you seem even less of a human than i originally thought.
As opposed to what? Keep enabling the problem and not calling out their reckless animalistic behavior for what it is? Why not just give them a revolver to play russian roulette daily and see what happens?
These are human beings fool we are all flawed and all make mistakes, should we all die because we have fu*ked up?
We have no obligation--legal, moral, or otherwise--to give drug paraphernalia to drug addicts. It's not going to stop reckless behavior. It may protect some, but it will also facilitate drug abuse.
Yes we are under no obligation to spend money already earmarked for HIV and AIDS on preventing it. Great use there beach! Your christian logic once again! Go death penalty, stop abortion! Don't use the millions we spend on HIV and AIDS to prevent it, instead just spend it!
lol. Who said anything about Christianity? What on earth does the death penalty and abortion have to do with this subject? Or Christiantiy for that matter? What this demonstrates is an inability to discuss the issue at hand.
Just pointing out examples of your hypocrisy. All in a days work.
Yawn. When you can't address the issue, divert, make a dumb comment, insult, change the subject, etc. Pretty transparent.
I don't have to divert, science has been proven right hundreds over and over that needle exchanges save lives and help to prevent further HIV infections therefore lowering the cost of health care.
