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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (13432)	5/11/2001 9:35:07 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

To call it a character flaw is to blame the victim. I think you're going too far in excusing all these "victims." Sure, if you're born addicted, and too many kids are, you're a victim. But if you started drinking to excess because you didn't want to stay home and work out conflicts with your spouse? Once you're an alcoholic you're a victim, but your character flaws facilitated your trip down that path. I don't think that denying blame is helpful in that situation. As for the poor, sure there are victims there, but anyone with the money to pay a pusher has money to pay a doctor. If you have the character to avoid that first trip to the pusher and instead give that money to a doctor, you have a much better chance of avoiding victimhood. I don't want to swing to the let-them-eat-cake position here. I'm just trying to make the point that there's an element of character in many/most addictions. Also, I framed my earlier point around the limited drug use to which I've been exposed. People I know have resources. If they're addicts, it's not because they're victims of the health care system. Karen