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Originally Posted by crit

Im not convinced all junkies live in squalor or that they dont deserve to have good treatment and services just because theyre junkies, but hey we all have different opinionsl . Maybe daves speaking for himself there heh.

During bens explanation of his political thinking dave was shaking his head in disagreement while ben was coming out with some surprisingly unexpected egalitarian statements that really showed a difference between himself and dave. ie ben came out of the conversation looking like the caring compassionate loving person and dave came off looking like a narrow minded git. Thats the point i was trying to make...dave is not very convincing as an altruistic god gobbler.

But for those junkies that do live in squalor and don't have decent housing - would the provision of such housing be appreciated - probably not! It could well end up getting wrecked and would, therefore, be wasted, when others would have appreciated it more! Dave has been there, done that, got the tee-shirt - I'm sure he knows what he is talking about! Junkies probably need help in other ways first.

And if Dave was the 'conman' people say he is - would he have made such comments and meant them in the way people imply - that would have been pretty stupid, wouldn't it!