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Doing drugs in public is a crime in most places. So the victims are, in fact, all of us (including the TikTokers doing the filming).

When I see chronic drug users suffering in public I don’t feel victimized, I feel empathy.

What about all the non-addicted people trying to live their lives in those communities? What do you feel for them?

Also empathy. The situation is a societal problem, the individuals are not really at fault.

What you feel is disgust; you just have so little empathy that you can't tell the difference.

> In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.