Re:My experience of losing a friend to heroin (2020)
by skyechurch on Monday October 25, 2021 @11:36PM
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>How so?
He waged war like a war. I don't personally recommend waging wars on chemical compounds or the desperate predestined "losers" of the economy, but there's something to be said for winning a war with cruelty vs losing the war with half the cruelty.
"It was the communist revolution that erased opium from mainland China. Mao Zedong , with his political apparatus that reached into every hamlet and home, was able to lay the beast low. He used a mixture of carrot and stick. Addicts were not condemned, but offered medical help and rehabilitation. But those who were unco-operative were sent to labour camps or imprisoned. Dealers were summarily executed, often without trial." [0]
"Smart" people getting hooked on drugs is exactly as tragic as "losers" like Jack, any competition which ignores this is one we should be enormously proud to lose.
He waged war like a war. I don't personally recommend waging wars on chemical compounds or the desperate predestined "losers" of the economy, but there's something to be said for winning a war with cruelty vs losing the war with half the cruelty.
"It was the communist revolution that erased opium from mainland China. Mao Zedong , with his political apparatus that reached into every hamlet and home, was able to lay the beast low. He used a mixture of carrot and stick. Addicts were not condemned, but offered medical help and rehabilitation. But those who were unco-operative were sent to labour camps or imprisoned. Dealers were summarily executed, often without trial." [0]
"Smart" people getting hooked on drugs is exactly as tragic as "losers" like Jack, any competition which ignores this is one we should be enormously proud to lose.
[0] https://www.scmp.com/article/547678/maos-drug-lesson-world