The question must be asked of earnest altruists
determined to stop those equally determined to
remove themselves from the global gene pool:
Why intervene? Need may be the mother of
invention and thrift the gift that keeps giving
but if in the process the issue at hand goes into
reversal what is gained? Take the oft-quoted remedy
for disposal of an unwanted gift; re-wrap and gift
elsewhere. Take safe injection sites where dedicated
health workers dispense needles and narcotics
meant to diminish the impact reliance of addicts
on more dangerous recreation drugs in a remedial
government-supported effort to save lives. Not to
purpose weaning away from drugs but to ensure
safe injection and less transmission of pathogens
between addicts. Who might have foreseen that
the supplied 'safe' and less powerful drugs would
find their way on the street for resale, in turn
funding the acquisition of morbidly harder drugs
with the earned reputation of a mounting death toll?
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