Quote Originally Posted by November Rain View Post
addicts will inject drugs intravenously. That will not stop. By providing safety measures against the use of dirty, possibly infected syringes & needles and against overdose, you are safeguarding against these people being taken to hospital & having costly procedures & care on your tax dollar. How can that be a problem? And, as Sir Burr and others have mentioned, it's beneficial to them.
So it's enlightened self-interest, or
Quote Originally Posted by Texpat View Post
What's next?

Giving guns and providing target practice to burglars? Teaching carjackers how to hot-wire stolen wheels so nobody gets hurt?

Define bad. Make laws. Enforce them as best you can.
They're not handing out drugs or giving instructions so the "giving guns" and "teaching" analogies don't work, imho.