[BipolarBob]

If I was the one being asked the question, I would have said the right thing to do would be to help the heroin addict kick his addiction, and if he was sick with AIDS, give him access to food and medication so that he could be as healthy as possible for as long as possible.

We can agree on this and then you rant on afterwards. I will not dignify the strawman about the shotgun. Have a good day.

[Conservative til I die]

We can agree on this and then you rant on afterwards. I will not dignify the strawman about the shotgun. Have a good day.

If you want to dismiss what I say as a rant and then run away, it's your perogative but it just reflects poorly on you. You're the one who proclaimed your enlightened reasoning ability. Don't be afraid to show it!

Anyways, the shotgun argument is no strawman argument. It's a somewhat extreme argument, but not much different than giving clean needles to a heroin addict. The only difference is helping to kill someone more quickly or more slowly.

Let's try a slightly different direction. Suppose you see a homeless person. Probably has a drug or alcohol addiction and maybe some mental illness that is most likely not being treated with medication. What's the more Christian thing to do? Give him a dollar every day which he might use to support his habit, still sleeping in refrigerator boxes in the dead of winter? Or buying him a sandwich and a coat and trying to get him in for treatment of his illness and addictions, in the hopes of making him self-sufficient one day?