"Harm reduction" is one of the stupidiest things I've ever seen in terms of public policy. It seems to say, this is bad for you, so in order to help you find the willpower to stop, we will make your bad habit easier to do. It is the polar opposite of the "broken window" approach first taken in New York, and succesfully exported to other cities.
The real answer to why we are seeing "harm reduction" is that there are very, very large numbers of people in our society who, even if they do not like or use drugs themselves, cannot find it in themselves to say so publically, so fearful are they of being called "intolerant." Well, guess what? Some things should not be tolerated. That used to be obvious. To many, it still is.
Our very serious problem takes the form of leftie boomers and radicalized boomer kids, for whom any taboo is taboo. Not all boomers think this way - and certainly not all boomer kids! - but many do. The boomers who run Vancover City Hall these days are hopeless examples of what I mean. They are doing all the crazy things mentioned in the article linked to above, and more. It would be hilarious if it was not so sad.
When you lower the costs of something, you usually get more of it. D-oh!
My move to Mac has been very happy except for two issues - gaming and blogging. For websurfing and multimedia, a Mac is of course a terrific machine. Games on the Mac platform are often ports of games made for the larger PC market and that means a Mac gamer will have to wait for the port. I'm not a heavy gamer by any means but I am very happy that the Mac port of Civilization 4 is finally here. Well, my copy isn't here quite yet - but it has been ordered and ought to be here soon. The blogging issue is more complicated. I'm not fond of writing my posts in a browser window. This goes back to when I was first blogging and I lost one or two large posts into the ether. After that I moved to w.bloggar - a great little app that let me compose on my desktop and then click send when all was said and done. I have not been able to recreate that experience on my Mac, and not for a lack of trying! I looked at Marsedit , but that forces you to compse while staring at a bunch of HMT...
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