As a society we are rewarding bad behaviour. When you reward a dog for biting eventually it be bite you. In the mean time this dogs life will be miserable, lacking joy, lacking love.
I so enjoy your posts! Your fact based perspective is refreshing and appreciated.
Excellent stuff again! One issue in all this is the terrible sin of 'being judgemental' and, God forbid, 'prejudiced.' I recommend Dalrymple's 'Romancing the Opiates' and 'In praise of prejudice' as suitable restoratives. I am personally prejudiced against any policy , and those espousing it, which results in the terrible scenes of degradation and displays of human misery now on the streets of our cities, not to mention crime, ruined lives and deaths. The evidence is plain and at least we are seeing some push back now.
PS: as to "scenes of degradation and displays of human misery". Even 3 years ago, downtown Sydney Nova Scotia was safe. Downtown had died like most urban environments so there were lots of empty shops, but it was safe. One could stagger home from a bar at 2AM unmolested, male or female. Then we went all in on "harm reduction". Yesterday Julie and I drove by the "Ally Centre", the taxpayer-funded facility which uses our money to give out free needles, food, "support", and I think now "safe supply" to addicts. There was a mass of humanity milling about in various states of consciousness. Some passed out, some semi-conscious. several having verbal altercations. A half-dozen or so had new T-shirts on that had the words "HARM REDUCTION SAVES LIVES!" on them. There are piles of garbage everywhere. My friend was propositioned to pay for a blowjob when he stopped at a nearby traffic light when he was out running last week. Another friend saw a "fine gentleman'" receiving a blowjob on the stoop of the senior's club just across the street from the Ally Centre, in broad daylight in full view of passing cars. Panhandlers have become aggressive and threatening - a friend of mine now won't use the bank machine in that area. There is no police presence as any movement by them to enforce vagrancy or loitering laws would be "unjust" to the poor "victims" who now have de-facto control of our downtown core. The most galling thing about all of this is that my tax money is being used to fund it. Meanwhile (unless it changed in the last 5 minutes) overdose deaths remain at an all-time high, stabbings and shootings have greatly increased, and rates of addiction have not dropped. What is the measure of success for "harm reduction"?
Dalrymple is my favourite living writer. Unparalleled in his insights. Romancing Opiates should be required reading for anyone who wants to be knowledgeable enough to express a useful opinion on these matters.
Abstinence represents a mortal danger to those who "earn a living" working in the marketplace of treatment protocols and pathways.
Agreed. Sounds like you've been reading your Thomas Sowell! :-)
Aside from the potential for loss of income, abstinence represents a strength of spirit that poses a real threat to the parasite class
We get what we tolerate.
Interesting and thought-provoking perspective.
As a society we are rewarding bad behaviour. When you reward a dog for biting eventually it be bite you. In the mean time this dogs life will be miserable, lacking joy, lacking love.
I so enjoy your posts! Your fact based perspective is refreshing and appreciated.
You need to publish this in MSM, it is very sobering, we need to reclaim proper compassion and treatment for our culture.
Excellent stuff again! One issue in all this is the terrible sin of 'being judgemental' and, God forbid, 'prejudiced.' I recommend Dalrymple's 'Romancing the Opiates' and 'In praise of prejudice' as suitable restoratives. I am personally prejudiced against any policy , and those espousing it, which results in the terrible scenes of degradation and displays of human misery now on the streets of our cities, not to mention crime, ruined lives and deaths. The evidence is plain and at least we are seeing some push back now.
PS: as to "scenes of degradation and displays of human misery". Even 3 years ago, downtown Sydney Nova Scotia was safe. Downtown had died like most urban environments so there were lots of empty shops, but it was safe. One could stagger home from a bar at 2AM unmolested, male or female. Then we went all in on "harm reduction". Yesterday Julie and I drove by the "Ally Centre", the taxpayer-funded facility which uses our money to give out free needles, food, "support", and I think now "safe supply" to addicts. There was a mass of humanity milling about in various states of consciousness. Some passed out, some semi-conscious. several having verbal altercations. A half-dozen or so had new T-shirts on that had the words "HARM REDUCTION SAVES LIVES!" on them. There are piles of garbage everywhere. My friend was propositioned to pay for a blowjob when he stopped at a nearby traffic light when he was out running last week. Another friend saw a "fine gentleman'" receiving a blowjob on the stoop of the senior's club just across the street from the Ally Centre, in broad daylight in full view of passing cars. Panhandlers have become aggressive and threatening - a friend of mine now won't use the bank machine in that area. There is no police presence as any movement by them to enforce vagrancy or loitering laws would be "unjust" to the poor "victims" who now have de-facto control of our downtown core. The most galling thing about all of this is that my tax money is being used to fund it. Meanwhile (unless it changed in the last 5 minutes) overdose deaths remain at an all-time high, stabbings and shootings have greatly increased, and rates of addiction have not dropped. What is the measure of success for "harm reduction"?
Dalrymple is my favourite living writer. Unparalleled in his insights. Romancing Opiates should be required reading for anyone who wants to be knowledgeable enough to express a useful opinion on these matters.