Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Reducing harm or manipulating libertarians?


Harm reduction makes a primary goal an effort at reducing the harm of risk taking behaviors. Libertarians take risk taking behaviors as a primary right and harm reduction as a means of justification.


The tobacco industry has been quite successful in not only confusing this distinction but also recruiting advocates to perpetuate this misconception. Regrettably, this has worked to divide public health challenges to rogue capitalist goals.


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