Some people view that addiction to
drugs, tobacco and alcohol, and at times, food-formed extreme obesity can have
profoundly damaging impacts on people’s chances of taking up meaningful
employment and such addicts are putting great pressure on the medical system of
the State.
To what extent do you agree or
disagree with the opinion that such people need not be given governmental
support and benefits?
The addition-generated
infliction isso damaging that it keeps people invalid and debilitated. They are a burden to any government in many
ways. This fact notwithstanding, it is not fair to deny support instruments and
benefits to them. I cannot agree with this view fully.
My position is this. Additions,
whatever they are, even food-formed, are byproducts of the society. Basically, people
basically are not addicts, but pick up these deadly habits by way of
compulsions like poor living standards, frustration, failures, physiological
urge to mention a few. Naturally, such people need support. That they are not
doing any job or putting pressure on the medical system is not at all reasons strong
enough to deprive them of any support they are entitled to get.
Let me substantiate it with an
example from my place where great many people are addicts. They are very much
sure that they are going to end up in great misery at the end of the day, but
most of them are under the clutches of these substances and are actually in a
“no U turn” condition where what they need is supports and benefits. Denial would
aggravate their urge to go on addicted.
However, it is fair to put up a
warning like denying employment for addicts, disqualifying addicts from taking
up higher positions, and even denying entry into services if the applicants are
found to be under substances. Here restricting state-funded welfare instruments
may be fine.
In short, addiction is not a
solid ground for denying state-funded allowances and supports. Rather there
should be a system in places to salvage addicts, and stop the young ones off
substances. So warning on denying employment or higher positions may work wonders.
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