Pubdate: Tue, 29 Sep 2009
Source: Comox Valley Echo (CN BC)
Copyright: 2009 Comox Valley Echo
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/vancouverisland/comoxvalleyecho/index.html
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/785
Author: Robert J. Perry

WHICH METHOD SHOWS COMPASSION?

In the name of compassion Courtenay has decided to supply crack-pipe 
kits to drug addicts in hopes of reducing diseases. Does the City 
Council not realize this enables the addict to continue his/her slow, 
self-administered suicide?

The moral (and legal, I might add) action to take is to incarcerate 
the addicts and force, even temporary, sobriety on these individuals. 
For the very few who continue in their sobriety after incarceration 
their lives will be saved and, I might add, they will not contract 
diseases related to addiction.

One life saved through the law is better than facilitating the slow 
death of thousands through the compassion, so-called, of supplying 
free crack-pipe kits. In reality which method shows true compassion 
to the addicts?

Robert J. Perry
Victoria 
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