Monday, December 29, 2008

A World Gone Mad


In Victoria, the geniuses who oversee drug addiction problems have struck real gold.

For absurdity and sickness, that is.

Seems they had to close down their site for free needle exchanges for heroin addicts.

So for some time now they've been operating a mobile service.

i.e., Don't worry, Doper. We bring the needles to you.

Small problem.

That leaves thousands of dirty needles unaccounted for.

Which means that the very people who are charged with helping the situation are, in fact, making it worse.

But consider this more fundamental issue.

A man or woman who sincerely believes in his or her own little utterly misguided heart that he/she is doing some good in the world spends his/her day dashing about the city streets on foot or on bicycle trying to find an addict to whom he/she can give a clean needle.

Imagine instead that this same poor fool was scooping addicts off the street to take them to a clean and sober rehab environment.

Oh, what ever is the matter with me?

I forgot.

We don't want to do that.

We want to help people stay stupid and hopeless.

We have a name for this that make it an honorable approach. Harm reduction.

How sick is the delusional person who has this "job?"

2 comments:

MurdocK said...

The road to hell is paved with...

Anonymous said...

David, you are describing those amongst us that operate in a "it feels good" mode. It "feels good" therefore it MUST BE good. Results? Who cares they lament. They will literally get down on their hands and knees,and plead with you not to confuse them with the facts.
More often than not, their actions will garner the same results as trying to teach a pig to sing........ you can't, and it just annoys the pig.