Sould we blame the addicts?

I truly believe that addiction comes from people lacking very important knowledge of themselves. Self love is a very, very noncomparable issue. You have to have self love in order to take care of YOU, as well as, demand respect from others. I do tend to feel sorry for those that I've lost to addiction along the way, but I try to focus more on helping them rehabilitate themselves. And it's a very hard task. You asked should you feel sorry for the people that you know that you see on the street that have become victims to addiction. I believe you should. Your sympathy for someone doesn't or shouldn't be thrown away because of the circumstances ever. You should always be a kind person and feel for someone that lacked what you did. Which is the motivation to stay away from addictions. Because when I think about reality today, everyone including me is two or three steps from being someone that someone else is going to feel sorry for. And everyone wants and needs a HERO to save them from themselves. Never give up on anyone if you can help it.

i think it is their surroundings and society that made them that way...people mess with one another and make people a certain way. child molesters, abusers, hateful people inflict their hate on others and mar others with scars and problems. parents mess with their kids a lot. teachers are not much help. and social workers are not helping the situation...i dont really know why people hire social workers or what they actually do because they are not helping all these messed up people in society... we need a volunteer psychiatrist to go into homeless shelters and help bums with their problems before giving them work...

Addiction is a disease. Yes, humans make choices that get them addicted, but once they cross that line, they are victims of a pernicious disease. We can love the addicts and hate their addiction. You should feel sorry for anyone who is hurting, but you should not condone their self-destructive behaviors. Tough love is still love.