Like, seriously now. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DEFINITION OF HARM REDUCTION IS?
"Harm reduction" is providing clean needles. It's making sure they don't trip while walking through the fire. It's providing a less harmful drug so that they don't self medicate with the more harmful drug.
You are being given an almost literal example of a trolly problem and a bunch of people have decided that the solution is to sit on their hands and whine about how they can't change how trains work.
@hrefna That account pretends to be leftist but doesn't know the first thing about anarchism. Either a post-literacy TikTok Marxist, or just a troll bot — a distinction I don't have the spoons for, so duly reported and blocked.
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They weren't even saying (originally) 'I don't want to do that', they were saying 'that's not harm reduction'.
I know it's not incredibly apt, but the concept of 'We can't offer STI treatments, birth control, or any assistance to pregnancy, because people shouldn't have sex' came racing into my mind.
We can't feed the homeless, because then people might not break their souls to not become homeless.
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Not as many people are utilitarians as think they are. When it comes down to doing something they don't like, they just trust the consequences to magically align with their preference.
I want to call them closet deontologists, but it might be more fair to just call them lazy.