WHICH METHOD SHOWS COMPASSION?

In the name of compassion Courtenay has decided to supply crack-pipe
kits to drug addicts in hopes of reducing diseases. Does the City
Council not realize this enables the addict to continue his/her slow,
self-administered suicide?

The moral (and legal, I might add) action to take is to incarcerate
the addicts and force, even temporary, sobriety on these individuals.
For the very few who continue in their sobriety after incarceration
their lives will be saved and, I might add, they will not contract
diseases related to addiction.

One life saved through the law is better than facilitating the slow
death of thousands through the compassion, so-called, of supplying
free crack-pipe kits. In reality which method shows true compassion
to the addicts?

Robert J. Perry
Victoria