I have literally kept someone alive by forcefully holding them down in the recovery position and keeping their airways clear while they convulsed due to a drug overdose only to be called to that same persons home as they were deceased the following week from another overdose.

I held onto a woman who fell down a 300 meter cliff for 12 hours, who had broken legs, blood pooling, she told me her life story only for the helicopter to arrive far to late, I could only try and keep her comfortable.

I have responded to a drug lab explosion in a hazmat capacity which severely injured it's occupants.

I have gone to a car accident where the driver was drunk and purposefully hit a tree to end his life due to depression.

I have gone to a multi-car collision where I worked on cutting a deceased out of a car in order to make it seem like we were "doing something" for the child he left behind who watched on in horror.

I have gone out to sea and conducted a 15+ hour marine rescue search daily for a week straight for someone who was taken and killed by a great white shark, knowing it was a waste of time as there was nothing left, but for the public and the media's sake, we needed to be seen being proactive.

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We do this, because we hope for the best, we hope for change.

And sometimes.. We get that change, we save that life.
That drug addict that overdosed? Could work towards changing their addiction around once they come near death.
That person who tried to kill themselves? Will seek the mental health assistance they need.
That child who watched us cut their father out of a car? Might just become a Firefighter or an Ambulance officer to try and do more good for the world.

We aren't here to determine what is "worth it" or what is "not worth it". - We are here to do the best we can with what we have and give the public a sense of hope and assurance.
The same applies to the military, they just have a different set of tools than what I have, but ultimately their goal is to protect the lives of their nation.

If you have a first responder or a military officer who are brazen and feel disenfranchised, they have likely spent years seeing horrors, their cups are empty... Hence their negative sentiment, it's likely a cry for help rather than a real factual statement... They simply need support.

Donald Trump is not just painting immigrants to be murderers and rapists. He is also painting them to be gangsters, thieves, people taking tax money away from others, and, especially, drug traffickers. And, again, despite one crime being bad individually compared to another crime, it is important to inspect the gross impact of lesser things on the country as a whole. Even when such things are legal, because the legality of something doesn't lessen its impact on the community. Take social media use, for instance. Higher social media use, despite its legality, has a significant correlation with adverse mental health conditions.

While an individual using heroin or fentanyl isn't as bad as an individual murder, those individuals using heroin and fentanyl outnumber murders (by a significant margin), so discounting them as if they aren't the same thing is incredibly dismissive as to the impact it may have on communities.

Well oh darn, look at me embarrassing myself thinking he meant America lol.