[newsmania]

Thanks, glad to see someone stand up for Jesus on HN. People act like religion is stupid here, but you make a great point to the contrary. If everything truly is relative and all that matters is what you want, why is opioid addiction a problem if that's what you want?

There is good and there is evil. The attempt to deny it, as you correctly say, causes huge problems. Like how we tell school children that they are no more than evolved animals, then wonder about why they go shooting people then take their own life.

[Karunamon]

Slight issue: I don’t think opioid addicts want to be addicts. When an externally introduced chemical is hijacking your neurochemistry and making you feel some of the worst pain imaginable when it’s not there anymore, wanting the pain to stop is the most natural desire - it just happens that more of the chemical is the fastest way to do so.

There’s also the fact that it’s objectively destructive, simultaneously to society, personal relationships, and the addict. No need to even invoke philosophical good and evil there.

And I say this as a religious person myself.