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see why incarcerating addicts is expensive and unhelpful. However, what I have read about here (and seen for myself) and seen in Vancouver about addicts on the street is appalling. Frankly, I have a hard time having too much sympathy for these wasted individuals. In a civilized society, people need to cooperate to share the public space successfully. Shooting up, lying in a gutter, breaking into cars and homes, leaving needles around, etc. is a huge violation of other people's rights to a decent life. It is disgusting, and these addicts are disgusting to do it. So many people in this world who could thrive and live good lives die of hunger and disease, while these addicts make disease, death and trouble for themselves and others, sucking down the world's precious resources to feed their own hunger. It truly is sickening.
