We shouldn’t help addicts.
Addicts are a cancer on society, regardless of whether their vice is drink, cigarettes, medications, cannabis or any of the other assorted concoctions of the devil. What irks me even more is that the medical society has the audacity to claim it is a disease. This is merely catering to the great masses of bankrupt, unwashed souls who have these vices. I say the worst thing we can do is help them with an addiction they brought upon themselves. Would you slap a ham sandwich out of fat person’s hand and then pay to send them to a colony where they can only eat tofu and get healthy? No—why would you? that person obviously chose that sandwich and chose his or her lifestyle. So why would we do this for people who are addicted to other vices? We let mercy get the better of us; we let ourselves feel compassion for those who do not deserve it. These people made a bad decision, and now it is society’s job to help them? If your drug addicted neighbor double parks and gets a ticket, is it fair for him to give it to you? This is what we are doing by allowing taxes to fund hospital rehab programs and drug information programs—Money that would be better spent on paving roads. Paving them with addicts, that is.
These people only make up around 5 per cent of the population, so why would we invest all this time and money on such a small and troublesome group? Even if one of them grew up to become filthy rich, they would never pay back the amount of money it costs to house one of these degenerates. I say, let them destroy themselves with vice and that can be the end of it. Not a single addict deserves sympathy or to have their addiction called a disease. Cancer, leprosy, cholera, typhoid fever, influenza, Ebola and the bubonic plague are all diseases. Why insult all the people who are dying painfully from real diseases by grouping them with people who chose their own “disease?” Only a demented mind would chose to be an addict. I say, if you are addicted, then just stop. You don’t like withdrawal? Oh, muffin! I guess you shouldn’t have done heroin in the first place! Now just quit it or go get out of the sight of society before you drag someone else down. Live in the sewers with the rest of the filth like your kind.
Do you know any cancer patients who could easily recover from cancer if they would just stop injecting more cancer into their veins? No! I say the only case in which an addicted person deserves help is when it is against his or her will. If, say, they are sitting at home minding their own business and then their dealer breaks into their home and then shoots them up with drugs. Honestly though, this doesn’t happen. Another thing—peer pressure or the desire to be cool doesn’t count as a reason. Just say No! I mean, Nancy Reagan taught us that much in my generation, and that was enough. We should force every child to watch that episode of Diff’rent Strokes with that adorable Gary Coleman, and that should be enough. If the former first lady of the most powerful country on earth can’t convince them it isn’t a good idea to do drugs, then nothing will. I mean, aren’t Gary Coleman and Nancy Reagan cooler than any of the kids at school?
Worst of all, certain individuals in Canada have been espousing the view that drugs can be used for good. That is like saying a nuclear bomb can be used for good. It cannot, and neither can drugs—they are works of the devil and we would all be better off if they never existed. I say we need to send them all to Baffin Island and let nature run its course; we wouldn’t even have to pay to ship them there. Just tell them there is all you want free drugs, video games and potato chips if they can make it there.
The author seems to be overlooking that most injuries, illnesses and diseases are either self-inflicted or avoidable. For example, if no one played hockey, no one would have hockey injuries.
Should we let injured hockey players suffer and/or die from their self-inflicted injuries? What about people who become diabetic from poor eating habits? What about heart disease from sedentary lifestyles?
I think we should put anyone who believes in the Devil on an island. We just tell them that there are gay weddings and classes on Darwinian evolutionary theory taking place there, however, the Charter and human rights law protects religious people from hate and discrimination.
As it happens, the Supreme Court of Canada agrees with doctors that addiction is a mental disability, and so addicts are also protected against discrimination and hate speech. I suggest your newspaper keep this in mind.
Wow, there are more things wrong with this article than I even have the time to comment on.
Anne Throwpa, I will even go so far as to throw down the gauntlet and make the case that you are a fucking idiot, and completely ignorant as to how the big wide world works. You are naive, uneducated, and narrow-minded.
My guess is that you are no more than 22 years old, mired in an over-the-top Conservative religion, and your parents have always told you what to think.
Smarten up and until you do, stay out of the press. You need to be slapped.
Because of the Colman and Regan references I think your trying to be satirical, but if that’s the case, the next time you write satire do a better fucking job of it.
Hey Anne, Betty Ford was a big addict herself before she cleaned up and started the Ford Clinic, which actually helps others who are addicts. Look! An addict did something useful and productive for society – holy shit! I also question why this article was printed since it contains no intelligent discussion on the topic of addiction, only mindless babble.
Why do you consider drug addiction to be a stupid choice
but with making reference to the devil, imply that being religious is a good choice. How is being religious better than being an addict? Both offer stability and community…and neither have much other benefit. I think you are being unfair.
Wow, Anne has really embarrassed herself, but its funny cause she probably felt intelligent after writing this. i imagine she had an alcoholic family member who abused her, and is incapable of dealing with it. i mean there has to be something fueling her ignorance.
I can’t believe I only heard of this article just now! Anne just to clarify, addiction is a mental disease; are you saying that mental disease deserve no attention? I’m sorry you grew up in a such a sheltered world that you can’t see why people develop addictions. You really should not have put your name on this article and rather signed it anonymous. YOU are a disease on society, and everything that is wrong with narrow minded people. YOU should be sent to Baffin Island to suffer and pay for your complete ignorance. My hope is that you develop Leprosy and your tongue and fingers fall off so you can never speak of or write any of this crap ever again.
This is possibly the most idiotic and ignorant article I have read in my entire life. You are so narrow minded in your views that I am shocked that you are surviving in the real world. I’m disappointed that the University of Lethbridge even allows this crap to be published. Hopefully such distaste for the struggles of so many people will not be allowed to be printed in the future.
One of the best satirical pieces I have read in a while. “any of the other assorted concoctions of the devil”. Brilliant. One would assume this article came from a backwater university town in some bible belt. Love it.
All I’ll say is, a nuclear bomb (two of them, in fact) ended World War 2 without us having to invade Japan and lose thousands of Allied lives. That sounds pretty good to me, doofus.
As much as I hope that this article was intentionally ironic, your final remarks lost you the benefit of the doubt; the irony being that the widespread attitude and bias you portray is far more worrisome than the very problems you describe. Furthermore, your self-righteous, arbitrary, intolerant, and parochial ideas are embarrassing not only to this university but to academia in general. I advise you to educate yourself with various social and natural scientific literature and philosophy rather than religious doctrines and right wing extremist propaganda. I am not going to tell you how to write but I must say this for my own reasons: using the word “evil” in the context of deeming something, anything, as inherently wrong or a product of the devil himself is puerile, and, to be blunt, just laughable.
I am not criticizing your article merely to mock or ridicule you; rather, I hope my comments as well as others promote cognizance of your own ignorance. Good luck on your quest for knowledge.
Wow… sorry for us in the helping profession who HAVE compassion and care about people and want to see them get better. Clearly you weren’t loved enough as a child
Wow. Speaking as a right wing extremist and christian fundamentalist I am shocked by complete lack of compassion and consideration presented in this article. Not to mention the near complete absence of reasoning or logic.
I fully support your freedom of expression, however, and am impressed that the meliorist allowed this to be printed.Freedom of expression needs to be protected.
By your references to the devil, I’m going to guess you’re some denomination of Christianity. So:
“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing. When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’ I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.” – Luke 15:3-7
“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.” – Luke 6:37
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” – Matthew 7.1-5
“Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him,” Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?” This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, “Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?” She said, “No man, Lord.” And Jesus said unto her, “Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.” – John 7:53-8:11
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.” Then the righteous will answer him, “Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?” The King will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” Then he will say to those on his left, “Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.” They also will answer, “Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?” He will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” – Matthew 25:31-25:46
“For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.” – James 2:13
“But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward in heaven will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.” – Luke 6:35
“Whatever you do for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you do for me. Except for those filthy addicts, I hate those guys. Just kill them and get it over with.” – Not actually appearing in the Bible
Looks like someone hasn’t read the Bible in a while. Jesus does not approve of your article.
I don’t have the time or effort to type out why this article is so awful. You are a hilariously close-minded bible-beater and i feel sorry for your future children. If there is one group of people that is a cancer on Earth it is you. (see the crusades; westboro baptists; pro-lifers; the list goes on…)
I doubt this person seriously believes anything s/he has written here. You are all wasting your time with browbeating, insults and schooling the person on their supposed Christianity. Just point your browser away from the site and read something else.
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