[REPOST] "Harm reduction" has a specific meaning, and people are misusing the term (i.ibb.co)

submitted 9 months ago by LinkOpensChest_wav to c/libertyhub

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Highlighting an essential defining part of the term "harm reduction" so that no one misses this:

and yes, there is a part of harm reduction that is aimed at not moralizing about the behavior that you're trying to reduce harm from. but if you're a progressive - as most of the people lecturing us about "harm reduction" purport to be - you should already understand that these behaviors are not ethically bad in and of themselves. it is not inherently unethical to use drugs or be sexually active as a teen, so the fact that harm reduction efforts could "encourage" that behavior is also not unethical! if you think that it is, then you're actually a conservative!

Obviously, this would not apply to, say, a fucking genocide

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[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 10 points 9 months ago

I personally am not telling you not to vote for Biden, but I am pleading with you to STOP misusing the term "harm reduction"

[-] Ranger 4 points 9 months ago

On a side note, Trump didn't win because of the extremely small number of people who voted for 3ed party candidates, he won because Hillary was a shit candidate.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 2 points 9 months ago

This is true, and thank you for bringing this up! I've been wanting to share a post about this.

People who voted third-party are a very small slice of the pie. Democrats use third-party voters (and really any group that doesn't conform to its very narrow window of what they consider acceptable behavior -- e.g., people who express valid criticism for candidates -- though that's a separate post) as an excuse, but their failures in elections rests entirely on them.

[-] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago

Very helpful examples for future conversations where this pops up. Thanks for sharing, OP.

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