[obvious_throw]

No basis?

The basis is that these people choose, of their own agency, to shoot up with used needles. This isn't some poor guy getting the cancerous genetic bit flipped by a cosmic ray or an uninsured single mom getting disabled by a drunk driver. These are consequences brought on by the patients themselves. By what moral basis should society be paying for the consequences of willful degeneracy?

[katbyte]

How about people who are injured during the course of risky sports? Or while drunk? Or from tobacco? or fromvovereating? By what moral basis should society be paying for the consequences of such willful risk taking and harm?

[sosborn]

>The basis is that these people choose, of their own agency, to shoot up with used needles.

They certainly chose to shoot up right until the point they achieved chemical addiction, but after that there is much less free will than people presume.

>By what moral basis should society be paying for the consequences of willful degeneracy?

I don't know about you but I hate seeing people self destruct. I certainly feel an obligation to assist them when possible. You might not, but please don't act like your moral compass is the only one that matter.