Isn't there a point where you just become an enabler though? I don't know if you can OD on meth, but if someone abused heroine and a community financed that abuse until the user OD'ed, wouldn't that kind of be on the community?
I'm genuinely asking by the way, not trying to do some weird debate thing of thinking up some odd hypothetical or some shitty rhetorical framing in order to shame people for helping. The example is just to explain my thought process.
I expect it's the kinda thing that doesn't have a clear answer, but I feel like there's also people who know a lot more than me about mutual aid, who will have a much better answer.
First off thank you for your answer. I am writing this follow-up because I feel my question was phrased poorly and thus led to an answer to a different query than the one I had in my head.
I'm not talking about passing judgement on others, but I can see how that's what I described with my phrasing. I'm also not talking about caring about what others spend their money on, but again, I phrased it poorly.
If I give financial aid anonymously to someone , whom I know abuses drugs which can kill them*, and I know this person is stuck in a pattern of financial aid they needed for housing or food on drugs instead, and I keep giving them money whilst they complain that their drug habit has gotten worse, and they then OD...
IF all of this in this very long and needlessly complex hypothetical happened, would I not then be some kind of enabler? Isn't there a point where me giving money unconditionally to someone who spends it on harmful and addictive narcotics (who complains about their habit) becomes hurtful instead of helpful?