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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Let's not forget the City Council meeting today where Sean Chu called addiction a "choice" and asked the public to show their hands for who wants a "shooting gallery". This in the face of Evan Woolley who lost his brother to addiction.
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I hate to generalize but sometimes the way different people look at this situation and epidemic is through their own cultural lens's. Right or wrong people of ethnic backgrounds or people who's parents are immigrants generally have a lower tolerance for this type of behavior. They take a more personal responsibility and a stance that this is the user's issue to deal with and figure out as opposed to the innocent victims who may be paying a higher price in terms of crime and social decay.
Regardless of the situation, the city, the province and the country need to deal with this entire drug epidemic better overall. People can suffer from addiction's issues and I really do sympathize with people's who's lives have been destroyed by drugs, I see it all the time as we have a family business in the Beltline but we also need to take into consideration the real destruction that is happening to the people and the business's there as well.
I read about the Councilor's brother and that sounds like a heart breaking situation, far too many lives are getting ruined and it's a shame.