We live in a litigious society filled with money-grubbin' bastards - and here I'm not referring to the Sacklers, although they may be money-grubbin' bastards, too.
ANY law suit or "settlement" that New York is involved in is automatically tainted, just by virtue of New York's involvement. New Yorkers are the theivingest bunch of miscreants I've ever had the misfortune to encounter, and nowadays they seem to prefer their theiving and pushing other folks around to involve courts. Having New York involved automatically places a plus in the Sackler's column as far as I am concerned.
I don't know of any areas more involved in the so-called "opioid epidemic" than the area I live in. There is a reason that OxyContin is called "Hillbilly Heroin". Yet I am willing to bet than exactly none of any "settlement" money makes it into this area - it will all be kept by the high roller thieves involved in the litigation. That alone tells me that they are not having humanitarian feelings, they are instead having "I get to line my pockets at someone else's expense" feelings. I really don't care, though - it won't be the first time someone else has carted what is ours away to enrich themselves, and it won't be the last.
In my estimation, those involved in the litigation are NO better than the Sacklers, in that their main goal in life is to enrich themselves on the misery of someone else. Birds of a feather, the entire lot of them on both sides.
I can't say that I care how other folks choose to end themselves, addicts included. When they die of their problems, it removes them from the gene pool, thus making the rest remaining just a little stronger every time. With that said, I also think it's criminal to prosecute low level drug dealers or users and let the Big Boys go free - I think, instead, that all drugs should be made legal, and the chips fall where they may. The biggest problem here with drugs as far as I can tell are their price and availability. Prices are driven up due to "criminalization", and those higher prices prompt addicts to engage in crimes to get the money to pay those high prices, crimes which affect the innocent as victims. It's not the drugs causing crime, nor is it even the druggies - it's the illegalization driving prices up that causes the crime.
I know folks personally whose lives have been ruined by the legal system over drugs (while at the same time they've been left alive to suffer for life) while the folks who made those drugs sit in offices and rake in bucks, free as birds. I don't see that as fair - what's good for the goose is good for the gander. either put 'em all in jail on felonies, kill them all off, or leave them all the hell alone to do what they do. Just creating a problem out of nothing so that vultures can line their pockets should be criminalized as well.
An unfortunate side effect of this "opioid epidemic" is that drugs are drying up here, especially as prescriptions for folks that really NEED pain medications. The Federal government has cracked down on prescriptions to the point that doctors are afraid to prescribe them to legitimately sick folks in pain, thus propagating their pain. The unfortunate result is that dopers have no end to their drugs of choice through the black market while legitimate patients are left to writhe and suffer in their pain.
It's a fucked up world. Patients are left to suffer, dopers lives are utterly ruined with no end to their own suffering clean or not, and vultures enrich themselves off the bodies of the dead and suffering via the miracle of modern litigation.
I can't, for the life of me, blame the Sacklers or their ilk - their opportunistic opponents are just as bad, or maybe even worse.
Bastards all.
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ANY law suit or "settlement" that New York is involved in is automatically tainted, just by virtue of New York's involvement. New Yorkers are the theivingest bunch of miscreants I've ever had the misfortune to encounter, and nowadays they seem to prefer their theiving and pushing other folks around to involve courts. Having New York involved automatically places a plus in the Sackler's column as far as I am concerned.
I don't know of any areas more involved in the so-called "opioid epidemic" than the area I live in. There is a reason that OxyContin is called "Hillbilly Heroin". Yet I am willing to bet than exactly none of any "settlement" money makes it into this area - it will all be kept by the high roller thieves involved in the litigation. That alone tells me that they are not having humanitarian feelings, they are instead having "I get to line my pockets at someone else's expense" feelings. I really don't care, though - it won't be the first time someone else has carted what is ours away to enrich themselves, and it won't be the last.
In my estimation, those involved in the litigation are NO better than the Sacklers, in that their main goal in life is to enrich themselves on the misery of someone else. Birds of a feather, the entire lot of them on both sides.
I can't say that I care how other folks choose to end themselves, addicts included. When they die of their problems, it removes them from the gene pool, thus making the rest remaining just a little stronger every time. With that said, I also think it's criminal to prosecute low level drug dealers or users and let the Big Boys go free - I think, instead, that all drugs should be made legal, and the chips fall where they may. The biggest problem here with drugs as far as I can tell are their price and availability. Prices are driven up due to "criminalization", and those higher prices prompt addicts to engage in crimes to get the money to pay those high prices, crimes which affect the innocent as victims. It's not the drugs causing crime, nor is it even the druggies - it's the illegalization driving prices up that causes the crime.
I know folks personally whose lives have been ruined by the legal system over drugs (while at the same time they've been left alive to suffer for life) while the folks who made those drugs sit in offices and rake in bucks, free as birds. I don't see that as fair - what's good for the goose is good for the gander. either put 'em all in jail on felonies, kill them all off, or leave them all the hell alone to do what they do. Just creating a problem out of nothing so that vultures can line their pockets should be criminalized as well.
An unfortunate side effect of this "opioid epidemic" is that drugs are drying up here, especially as prescriptions for folks that really NEED pain medications. The Federal government has cracked down on prescriptions to the point that doctors are afraid to prescribe them to legitimately sick folks in pain, thus propagating their pain. The unfortunate result is that dopers have no end to their drugs of choice through the black market while legitimate patients are left to writhe and suffer in their pain.
It's a fucked up world. Patients are left to suffer, dopers lives are utterly ruined with no end to their own suffering clean or not, and vultures enrich themselves off the bodies of the dead and suffering via the miracle of modern litigation.
I can't, for the life of me, blame the Sacklers or their ilk - their opportunistic opponents are just as bad, or maybe even worse.
Bastards all.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’