[futurehero]

"I'm going to die if I don't get my <insert recreational drug here>" doesn't carry. Drugs of necessity, like insulin, are provided to avoid liability. Society, on the whole, is not OK with providing recreational drugs or their equivalent to anyone, much less those pending criminal charges, and correctional officers are average members of society, and thus share its general position on providing recreational drugs or their equivalents to users or addicts, including those they are paid to oversee whilst incarcerated. This is a rational way for society to be. Saving everyone from the consequences of their actions is not a viable nor tenable survival strategy for any population or species.

[pessimizer]

> Saving everyone from the consequences of their actions is not a viable nor tenable survival strategy for any population or species.

If this is what we were doing, we wouldn't be arresting junkies for being junkies. This is a retroactive justification for cruelty.

[komali2]

> Saving everyone from the consequences of their actions is not a viable nor tenable survival strategy for any population or species.

Yes it is.

Out of curiosity, when you say things like "survival strategy for species," between which sentient species of human level complexity are you comparing? I'm only aware of one so I'm really surprised to find someone speaking so confidently on what works and doesn't work for the survival of sentient species.