DECISION-MAKERS AND EXPERTS MAD

THE CIVIC injection room is promoted as a logical move to save the lives of
a few victims in a very extensive drug culture.

Ready rescue teams for drug-overdose cases would not work because the drug
culture will not accept help from 'the establishment'. So again we have a
pressure group using the route of compassion to force acceptance of immoral
behaviour.

Deja vu! a technological solution for a moral problem.

Thirty years ago freely available abortion was argued on the pathological
cases of rape, incest, and various feminist causes.

Today abortion is the ultimate contraceptive. As a consequence, we are an
ageing nation, beginning to rue the two million unborn who could have made
us a vital society.

Are heroin deaths just a nasty statistic that we want to rid ourselves of?
Has our education only made us fit to act in a charade of fun and success
called 'life'? Are we so materialist to deny the sin which we can see in
the street, and also to deny it in our own lives?

Technological solutions justified by a computer full of statistics on
heroin and death are supposed to impress as logical and rational. In fact
they represent a simplification born of utter self-confidence and lacking
good judgment.

Chesterton castigated such reasoning as breeding insanity: 'The madman is
not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost
everything except his reason.' In this sense our experts and our decision
makers are mad!

J. L. SMITH
Farrer