Why do many people feel sorry for drug addicted people?

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dragonfly forty-six Profile

Feeling sorry for someone means you empathize with their plight. Especially if it's a family member.  Empathizing with an addict is different than enabling them to continue to hurt themselves.

Didge Doo Profile
Didge Doo answered

I can feel sympathy, even distress on their behalf but, as your question implies, they did it to themselves.

The same applies to people addicted to anything. In the beginning it's self-inflicted but after a while there's little choice.  The problem is that the purveyors of drugs, booze, cigarettes, and so on, get to them when they're still kids -- especially when they're teens and will do anything stupid just to give their parents the finger.

My sympathy doesn't extend to the point where I condone them breaking the law or sponging off their family and friends.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
When I was growing up we had no drugs in Oz, Happy, so I was never faced with the problem. I didn't even start drinking till I did my military service, then overdid it to make up for lost time. :(
But I was lucky. I got on top of it and now I can enjoy a drink or not, and I usually don't bother.
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Of course. I worked in an environment like that. Heavy drinking was the norm and it was so expected that it was very hard to break away.
I'm glad he made it. :)
Megan goodgirl Profile
Megan goodgirl answered

I don't know. They do it to themselves.

Deston Elite Profile
Deston Elite answered

Because a drug addict is going through difficult times. Many of them find it hard to live anymore and the only thing they live for is the drugs. I'm addicted to tobacco and trust me, getting over an addiction is not something that's easy. It's difficult.

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