"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!
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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