COURTENAY'S COMPASSION LETS ADDICTS SLIDE

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 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 is better than facilitating the slow death of thousands
through the so-called compassion of supplying free crack-pipe kits.
Which method shows true compassion to the addicts?

Robert J. Perry

Victoria