I would agree with you if I weren’t talking about sacrifice. Sacrifice requires action. I agree that inaction could result in culpability. But I don’t think it lines up with what I’m talking about because action and inaction both result in death or other kinds of suffering when it comes to drug legality.

Maybe it’s a little like the famous philosophical question about pushing a fat guy off a cliff to stop a train from killing a bunch of children. There’s preventable death either way.

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