The moral panic about opioids has been in play for decades, and doesn't sit within this argument, because it has nothing to do with purity. The religious notion that suffering is good, noble, enlightening, or god's will, has long infected medical and social thinking, and stem's directly from religions, of course. If anyone was serious about reducing pain and suffering for people with terminal illnesses, heroin would be legally available for medical use.
the moral panic has gone on and off for sure; it ramped up again after the opiod crisis. chronic pain patients have really been in distress; it's ramped up considerably.
I think the drug war in general is about purity? the idea that foreign substances are corrupting. I think that's more relevant than noble suffering...people tend not to believe that people with chronic pain are really suffering...though I think distrust of pleasure as corrupting is an element probably...
I think the War on Drugs is more about racism, myself—since to the Christian Right's mind, it's those NEE-Grows and Chinese (by which they mean anybody with an epicanthal fold) who sell dope! To our kids!
It's all too reminiscent of that scene in THE GODFATHER where The Five Families hold a negotiation to end their turf war, and decide selling drugs should be "controlled"...to Black neighborhoods only! Or how only the Chinese seemed to have opium dens...after the British(!) addicted them to it as a means of "soft control"(!!!) over China. That numerous White Europeans also got addicted to opium thanks to laudanum (a painkiller including alcohol and morphine), or that Bayer developed Heroin as a "nonaddictive" substitute to it (stop me if you've heard this one recently), is one of those historical things you're not taught in school.
I've said elsewhere that marijuana is on the restricted list as a "gateway drug" because, prior to the Sixties, it was mostly Persons of Color who smoked it—or persons who associated with them like jazz musicians.
Funny thing is, all pro-disease people would likely accept a blood transfusion if they thought it would help them, medically, but is higher risk than any vaccine.
The majority of religions prefer that their people marry with their own, so I don't know how far this can be stretched with the right wing, since it's independent of any political leanings.
The moral panic about opioids has been in play for decades, and doesn't sit within this argument, because it has nothing to do with purity. The religious notion that suffering is good, noble, enlightening, or god's will, has long infected medical and social thinking, and stem's directly from religions, of course. If anyone was serious about reducing pain and suffering for people with terminal illnesses, heroin would be legally available for medical use.
the moral panic has gone on and off for sure; it ramped up again after the opiod crisis. chronic pain patients have really been in distress; it's ramped up considerably.
I think the drug war in general is about purity? the idea that foreign substances are corrupting. I think that's more relevant than noble suffering...people tend not to believe that people with chronic pain are really suffering...though I think distrust of pleasure as corrupting is an element probably...
I think the War on Drugs is more about racism, myself—since to the Christian Right's mind, it's those NEE-Grows and Chinese (by which they mean anybody with an epicanthal fold) who sell dope! To our kids!
It's all too reminiscent of that scene in THE GODFATHER where The Five Families hold a negotiation to end their turf war, and decide selling drugs should be "controlled"...to Black neighborhoods only! Or how only the Chinese seemed to have opium dens...after the British(!) addicted them to it as a means of "soft control"(!!!) over China. That numerous White Europeans also got addicted to opium thanks to laudanum (a painkiller including alcohol and morphine), or that Bayer developed Heroin as a "nonaddictive" substitute to it (stop me if you've heard this one recently), is one of those historical things you're not taught in school.
I've said elsewhere that marijuana is on the restricted list as a "gateway drug" because, prior to the Sixties, it was mostly Persons of Color who smoked it—or persons who associated with them like jazz musicians.
oh it's definitely racism. I think purity is closely connected with the way we think about race too though.
Funny thing is, all pro-disease people would likely accept a blood transfusion if they thought it would help them, medically, but is higher risk than any vaccine.
The majority of religions prefer that their people marry with their own, so I don't know how far this can be stretched with the right wing, since it's independent of any political leanings.
I think different traditions, and different individuals, have a pretty wide range of feelings about marrying outside the faith....