My Thoughts - General Thoughts Sparked By This Wet House Situation

This Situation Is A Microcosm For The Macrocosm Of The Overall Change Taking Place In Humanity.

• I'd say, we're finally growing up and letting go of the primitive concept of resource-hierarchy.

To Heal Addicts, It's Pretty Clear That They Need A Place To Call "Their Own"

• A place where "they belong".
• A place where they are welcome, accepted, loved and wanted.
• Simply put, a home and a family.

Housing Addicts With A Handful Of Babysitters Occassionally Checking In On Them To See They Haven't Fallen Down The Stairs Isn't A Solution

It's A Shame We Have Ignored Addicts For So Long And Are Only Addressing The Problem Now That It's Affecting Our Own Lives

• It isn't right, but it is normal in a world of competition where most of your energy must be put into keeping yourself afloat
  

Creating An "Idyllic" Environment For Drug & Alcohol Addicts Seems Very Unfair To Working People, Who Are Paying For The Facility With Their Tax Dollars.

• Again and again and again, this whole situation is yet another little wake-up call that our entire species needs to change the insane Capitalist philosophy which governs our world.
• We could always go Spartan, or Nazi on the addicts. Less than perfect? Off a cliff you go! ... Naturally that is horrible beyond measure and the Spartans and Nazis were emotionally deformed societies ... am I sure our's isn't though?...
• For those of us who don't have a black ball of unresolved rage constantly scalding our soul inside, solutions must be found besides scolding and criticizing them for succumbing to stuff to numb the pain of existence. To people who say that, I would repeat JC's lines, "Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone." For the solution-minded, the addicts are only going to get better in a place where they are safe, comfortable, loved (very, very hard in our cold Capitalist world...i know...), and have a sense of purpose (working on a farm, breathing in fresh air, learning skills, selling healthy foods to their fellow human beings).
• Drug addicts are children who didn't have a happy home. We can either condemn them, or heal them. Healing them means giving them a happy home now.
  

It's Not Fair! Druggies And Drinkers Would Get A World-Class Facility To Make Them Feel Warm N' Fuzzy Inside, While The Rest Of Us Bleed And Sweat To Pay For Them!

• Well, again, should we go Spartan on these poor people? Should we go Spartan on each other? The Spartans succumbed to a societal system which had a low birth rate, high mortality rate, and lack of innovation. What you would expect in a society based on war. They already tried that system. We should learn from our ancestors and not follow them off a cliff.
• Providing the Facility is a band-aid for the real problem affecting not just Nanaimo, but the whole world. The Capitalist model doesn't fulfill us. Non-stop competition, trying to outdo, outperform, and basically stomp all over each other doesn't make us feel good, at all.
  
• Everybody deserves a World-Class Facility to live in. The world itself should be a WORLD-Class Facility to live in.
• For now though, this little problem has a right solution. We should do that.