Reparations for slavery are a jubilee; various means-tested programs vaguely targeting Black people are a "reduction".
A free, simple, and direct path to citizenship is a jubilee; asylum is a "reduction".
UBI, outlawing billionaires, rent control, and free healthcare is a jubilee; welfare, tax reform, section 8 and vouchers is a "reduction".
"Harm reduction" is "lesser evil" - quite literally, from a verbiage perspective - by assuming the continued prevalence and centrality of *harm*.
@johnzajac I think you're missing that American society backs the harm. They want it to be there.
So that's democracy for you. The people want this negative stuff, so they get it.
It's not corruption really; it's the government responding to the wants of the population.
